World of Ships – May 2018

PADDLE STEAMERS

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not meet the delivery date and the contract,

worth SwFr450,000, went to Esher Wyss, who

also provided the engine.

After a lunch on 2 June 1913, the vessel’s

first public cruise followed on 10 July.

Her name was selected to honour France,

with the country’s golden cockerel emblem

incorporated in decorative bow scrolls. An

LEFT Flier of the Lake Lucerne fleet fleet Gallia,

capable of 17 knots, sailing between Vitznau and

Beckenried. (Russell Plummer)

ABOVE Gallia making an annual overhaul visit to

the SGV’s covered dry dock in Lucerne.

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