VISEGRAD paddle steamer 1896

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VISEGRAD paddle steamer 1896

Post by aukepalmhof » Wed Jun 14, 2017 9:50 pm

This stamp shows the Cathedral from Esztergom, with on the foreground a paddle steamer identified by Navicula as the VISEGRAD.
She was built by the Schonichen-Hartmann yard in Ujpest, Hungary for the MFTR.
1896 Launched as the IMRE.
Dim. 56.4 x 6.0m and over paddleboxen 12.0m.

1912 Modernized at the yard of the MFTR at Orsova and lengthened to 63.4m.
Passenger accommodation 850 passengers
Also the same year renamed in VISEGRAD.
Between 1944 and 1947 in service in Austria.
1959 Withdrawn from service and sold to the SZOT Trades Union Organisation in Hungary.
Continued to run cruises for the trade unionists under the name SZOT VISEGRAD UDULOHAJA.
Later her engines and paddlewheel removed and was she moored as a hotel/restaurant ship on the western side of Margaret Island, Budapest.
1994 Scrapped.

Hungary 1947 20f sg 988, scott?
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cate ... hip,_1896)
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