World of Ships – May 2018

PADDLE STEAMERS Paddle Steamers I World of Ships I 21 Wingfield Castle at her Hartlepool berth, July 2017. (Nicholas Leach) ABOV ...

22 I World of Ships I Paddle Steamers T wo of the 23 paddle steamers offi cially recorded as taking part in Operation Dynamo, th ...

PADDLE STEAMERS Paddle Steamers I World of Ships I 23 ABOVE HMS Medway Queen as minesweeper lying in Dover Harbour shortly befor ...

24 I World of Ships I Paddle Steamers PRINCESS ELIZABETH BUILT 1927 by Day, Summers and Co, Southampton, to order of the Southam ...

PADDLE STEAMERS Paddle Steamers I World of Ships I 25 Arts Typographiques and towed to Rouen to be refitted, before continuing t ...

26 I World of Ships I Paddle Steamers CHAPTER TWO AUSTRIA B ritish know-how played a significant part in the development of padd ...

Schönbrunn’s twin furnace oil-fired boiler. PADDLE STEAMERS Paddle Steamers I World of Ships I 27 RIVER DANUBE SCHÖNBRUNN OWNER ...

ABOVE Dressed for the occasion, Stadt Wien after her arrival in Tulln late in 1995. ABOVE Builder’s plate marking Stadt Wien’s c ...

PADDLE STEAMERS Paddle Steamers I World of Ships I 29 Rindbach in October 1982. The vessel’s Friends’ Society launched a campaig ...

30 I World of Ships I Paddle Steamers SCHÖNBRUNN’S 2012 VISIT TO BUDAPEST ABOVE Schönbrunn seen passing Melk on 25 August in the ...

PADDLE STEAMERS Paddle Steamers I World of Ships I 31 SCHÖNBRUNN’S 2012 VISIT TO BUDAPEST Schönbrunn passed the ex- DDSG Stadt W ...

ABOVE Not many passengers for Kaiser Franz Josef 1 during a morning run to St Wolfgang. ABOVE Kaiser Franz Josef with much-enhan ...

PADDLE STEAMERS Paddle Steamers I World of Ships I 33 CHAPTER THREE CZECH REPUBLIC J oseph Rushton and John Andrews, the English ...

34 I World of Ships I Paddle Steamers name change was deemed necessary. So the steamer assumed that of sister Vysehrad, which ha ...

PADDLE STEAMERS Paddle Steamers I World of Ships I 35 6 The Prague paddle steamer Vysehrad, which celebrated 80 years of service ...

36 I World of Ships I Paddle Steamers CHAPTER FOUR DENMARK T here was a role for Danish paddle steamers in the development of bo ...

PADDLE STEAMERS Paddle Steamers I World of Ships I 37 A lthough more than 100 paddle steamers were built for service in Imperial ...

38 I World of Ships I Paddle Steamers red velvet upholstery and glittering brass including some items carefully saved down the y ...

PADDLE STEAMERS Paddle Steamers I World of Ships I 39 Although Mark Twain is a steam-powered stern-wheel vessel, Molly Brown has ...

40 I World of Ships I Paddle Steamers T he division of Germany following World War II had a huge but contrasting influence as pa ...