The 374-foot (114 m) Albatross had rails built onto the deck, allowing railcars to roll onto the ship, take the short ride across the river, then roll onto tracks on the opposite shore.
With no bridge over the Mississippi River at Vicksburg, Mississippi, the railroads used a pair of car ferries to shuttle railcars across. The SS Admiral descended from the metal-hulled sidewheeler SS Albatross, a ferry for heavy vehicles owned by the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad. The boat was dismantled for scrap metal starting in 2011.
The ship was briefly re-purposed as an amusement center in 1987 and converted to a gambling venue called President Casino, also known as Admiral Casino, in the 1990s. SS Admiral was an excursion steamboat that operated on the Mississippi River from the Port of St.
