Talk:African Queen (boat)

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In Jinja Uganda there is a resort which claims to have the original African Queen. Looks like the real thing, and given the movie was filmed there, one wonders where the original really is. Another possibility is that there was more than one used in the filming. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.55.127.158 (talk) 22:16, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

Wooden construction? I don't think so. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.7.139.43 (talk) 22:23, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

The article states that the boat is made of wood. Riveting is plainly visible in the photo, making this this a steel hull boat. Primohag (talk) 12:37, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

Clarence Thomas

The TV show pilot has as one actor, Clarence Thomas, which is linked to the United States Associate Supreme Court Justice. According to IMDb.com, there are two actors also named Clarence Thomas and the one listed as being in the pilot episode of "The African Queen" lived from 1934 - 2009.Jtyroler (talk) 23:19, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

I've removed the entire chunk of unsourced info. --‖ Ebyabe ^talk - Repel All Boarders ‖ 01:30, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

Specs

Why no specifications? Length, beam, speed, etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.78.23.235 (talk) 14:57, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

"The boat was found in Cairo, Egypt in the 1970s"

The Water Is Wide by Pat Conroy places what may be The Congo boat or some similar vessel on Daufuskie Island at least a couple of years before it was supposedly discovered in Cairo. I place this fact here in case any second source could confirm or clarify it.

"...A man named Ted Stone met us at the dock. Ted was a powerfully built man with steel gray hair and ice blue eyes. He greeted us matter of factly with a restraint and distance that made me a bit ill at ease. He was friendly enough and courteous enough, but he was aloof and suspicious. According to Bennington, he ruled Yamacraw Island. He had expropriated every job on Yamacraw Island for himself. He was the Game Warden, the Magistrate, the Director of Economic Opportunity, Warden of the Roads, Civil Defense Director, and held countless smaller titles, His wife, Lou, held every job not claimed by her husband. Lou was in her fifties but still had dark brown hair.

...I listened to Stone and was glad to be learning. He loved to talk about himself and nothing could have been more instructive to me. On a whim, he had once traveled to Florida with a group of friends, bought the boat which Humphrey Bogart captained in the film The African Queen, and brought it back to Yamacraw Island, where it survived a year then rotted slowly into oblivion." Tearaway (talk) 17:54, 19 November 2023 (UTC)