Kingston Mouldings of England makes a large hull of the African Queen. See my photos for details of the boat and boiler as seen in the movie. The Original Queen has been restores and has tours im Key Largo Florida at the Holiday Inn. It does not resemble the movie boat as it has had many renovations over the years.

The historic African Queen was brought to Key Largo by the late Mr. Jim Hendricks.

I spoke with the people who restored the Queen and who run the tours, and she said the hull is actually 28 feet 11 inchs long. Remember the 30 foot mentioned in the book was before Forrester purchased the boat.

The riverboat was built in Lytham Shipyards in St Anne's, Lancashire, England in 1912 and named Steam Launch Livingston or S. L. Livingston. For years, it carried freight and passengers on Lake Alberta in Uganda in the service of the British East Coast Railway.

In 1951, Director John Huston found the Steam Launch and renamed it African Queen for his film. The African Queen.