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Stranded steamboat is finally back on its voyage

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    Steamboat stuck in mud due to low water levels sets sail again

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-- it was a site that attracted people from across Tennessee I just was kind of surprises like with the you know.

That this is the one that we heard about and that means you're.

In -- -- we were -- alliance.

And the -- it would come down -- -- it because it's just me after being -- -- to a tree stranded by continuously falling water levels on the Mississippi.

The American queen finally untethered.

And set sail again.

We thought rather than get down to Vicksburg and maybe.

-- the river -- more and be difficult to get back out there would be safer to just turn around in -- we just quickly got nineteen buses.

Life coach Olson train tickets and -- shuffled the entire.

Group.

The queen may have been docked for a few days but it didn't dampen plans for the hundreds of people on board.

Believe contractor with a hotel in Vicksburg and injection and good people all have wonderful mules -- four day tour.

Of the civil war battlefield at Vicksburg which was not part of their itinerary.

So it was kind of an added bonus sizes brought the passengers back to the queen in Memphis where she sailed off into their --