1837 Built as an iron paddle steamer by the British shipbuilder Fowles under yard No 1 on the yard of the Erste Donau Dampfschiffarth Gesellschaft (DDSG) at Altofen, Obuda, (Budapest) for the DDSG at Vienna.
Launched as ARPAD, named after a Hungarian hero.
Dim. 56.09 x 6.71 (over the paddles 14.03m.) x 2.90m., length bpp. 53.03, draught 1.22m.
Powered by a 2-cyl.balance Boulton & Watt steam engine, 320 hp.
She was the second vessel in the fleet of the company and used in the service on the River Danube.
1844 Rebuilt on the DDSG yard in Obuda.
Displacement 285 ton. Dim. 56.98 (between p.p.) x 7.01 (over paddles 13.16m.) x 3.05, draught 1.06m.
1852 New boiler fitted in.
1877 Fitted out with a new engine, type en hp. unknown.
Destroyed during World War I.
Hungary 1981 1fo sg3400, scott2706. (The ship in the stamp on the stamp is the REVFULOP.)
Source: Enzyklopadie der Maritime Philately (Navicula). http://www.hajoregiszter.hu/hajoadatlap/arpad/1638