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River Elbe : Lauenburger Schiffahrtsgesellschaft

Stadt Lauenburg (1912-1958)
Wittenberge (1919-1953)
Theodor Basedow (1922-1927)  
Tug ex Corfanti built at Danzig 1905, 48 m, Luisiana, Wloclawek when at Torun PL in 1918-1922. Sold to Hamburg. To USSR after the war
Hugo Basedow (1925-1962)


Cruising on the Elbe from Lauenburg continues with the paddler Kaiser Wilhelm (1900) operated by a museum society.
Hugo Basedow survives with heavily rebuilt superstructure in a static use at Nijmegen, NL

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Kaiser Wilhelm