Uranus
Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2017 8:07 pm
URANUS.
Paddlesteamer. Built 1915 as ”Kaiser Wilhelm ll” for the Danube Steam Navigation Co. Name changed in 1918.
Length 78m. Compound engine of 1,000hp. Accomodation for 1,400 passengers.
On service between Vienna and Giurgiu.
In 1935 converted to burn oil fuel.
After the Second World War she was laid up with her sister ship “Saturnia” as an hotel ship and moored near the Lindzer Lande.
Scrapped in 1948.
Austria 1937 Sg806. LB vol17 No11
Paddlesteamer. Built 1915 as ”Kaiser Wilhelm ll” for the Danube Steam Navigation Co. Name changed in 1918.
Length 78m. Compound engine of 1,000hp. Accomodation for 1,400 passengers.
On service between Vienna and Giurgiu.
In 1935 converted to burn oil fuel.
After the Second World War she was laid up with her sister ship “Saturnia” as an hotel ship and moored near the Lindzer Lande.
Scrapped in 1948.
Austria 1937 Sg806. LB vol17 No11