World of Ships – May 2018

PADDLE STEAMERS Paddle Steamers I World of Ships I 81 not meet the delivery date and the contract, worth SwFr450,000, went to Es ...

82 I World of Ships I Paddle Steamers enclosed wheelhouse was added in 1925, but otherwise changes in profile have been few, and ...

PADDLE STEAMERS Paddle Steamers I World of Ships I 83 LAKE NEUCHATEL ABOVE Neuchatel high and dry while being lifted ABOVE Neuch ...

84 I World of Ships I Paddle Steamers BLUMLISALP BUILT 1906 by Escher Wyss, Zurich DIMENSIONS Length 62.7m, width 6.8m (hull), 1 ...

PADDLE STEAMERS Paddle Steamers I World of Ships I 85 LOTSCHBERG BUILT 1914 by Escher Wyss, Zurich DIMENSIONS Length 56.56m, wid ...

86 I World of Ships I Paddle Steamers Lake Zurich was the setting for the first major success for Swiss preservationists, with p ...

PADDLE STEAMERS Paddle Steamers I World of Ships I 87 ABOVE Stadt Rapperswil nears journey’s end from Zurich at the town whose n ...

88 I World of Ships I Paddle Steamers LUCERNE VETERANS PUT ON A SHOW Lake Lucerne’s five-strong paddle steamer fleet of Uri, Unt ...

PADDLE STEAMERS Paddle Steamers I World of Ships I 89 DRESDEN DISPLAYS The nine superb paddle steamers from the Dresden fleet tr ...

90 I World of Ships I Paddle Steamers CHAPTER THIRTEEN PADDLERS ASHORE RIGI Rigi was Greenwich-built in 1846 by Ditchborne and M ...

PADDLE STEAMERS Paddle Steamers I World of Ships I 91 fleet as Konigstein. After she spent 1971 in reserve, her engine and boile ...

92 I World of Ships I Paddle Steamers and Fort William, taking four days in either direction. This continued until December 1820 ...

PADDLE STEAMERS Paddle Steamers I World of Ships I 93 CHAPTER FOURTEEN EASTERN EUROPE ABOVE Radetzky was created in 1964-66, whe ...

94 I World of Ships I Paddle Steamers major refurbishment took place between 1988 and 1993, when the steam engine was replaced b ...

PADDLE STEAMERS Paddle Steamers I World of Ships I 95 ROMANIA Conversion of paddle tugs into passenger vessels was a relatively ...

96 I World of Ships I Paddle Steamers engines taking steam from oil fired boilers. K.M. Stanyukovich, built at Budapest in 1957, ...

PADDLE STEAMERS Paddle Steamers I World of Ships I 97 ABOVE Dating back to 1887, Krasnoyarsk is now a museum ship at the Siberia ...

98 I World of Ships I Paddle Steamers GREAT BRITAIN WAVERLEY (Waverley Excursions) • Glasgow 25 to 28 May; Western Isles 29 May ...

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