PADDLE STEAMERS
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1
Great Britain .......................... 6
Waverley, Kingswear Castle, Maid of
Loch, Dunkirk veterans, Static vesselsCHAPTER 2
Austria ................................. 26
River Danube, Traunsee, WolfgangseeCHAPTER 3
Czech Republic ......................
Vysehrad (II), Vysehrad (I), Vltava and
Prague local paddlers.CHAPTER 4
Denmark .............................. 36
Hjejlen, the ‘Sky Mountain’ steamerCHAPTER 5
Finland ..................................
Elias Lonnrot, Lake Keurusselkä, LahtisCHAPTER 6
France .................................. 38
Molly Brown, Inexplosible 22, river
cruiser Loire PrincesseCHAPTER 7
Germany ............................... 40
Rivers Elbe, Rhine, Weser, Harle; Kieler
Foerde, Ammersee, Chiemsee, BodenseeCHAPTER 8
Hungary ............................... 58
Budapest survivors and the replica
paddle vessel KisfaludyCHAPTER 9
Italy ...................................... 62
Lake Como, Lake Garda, Lake MaggioreCHAPTER 10
Netherlands ......................... 66
De Majesteit, Kapitein AnnaCHAPTER 11
Norway/Sweden ................... 68
Skibladner, Lake Mjosa, Eric NordvallCHAPTER 12
Switzerland .......................... 70
Lakes Geneva, Lucerne, Neuchatel,
Thun and Brienz, ZurichCHAPTER 13
Paddlers ashore ..................... 90
Varied roles for vessels on shore in
Germany, Switzerland and ScotlandCHAPTER 14
Eastern Europe ...................... 93
Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, Russia,
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