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PT Ersekcsanad
The former Danube paddle tug lies as a musuem
ship having been saved from the breakers in 1979 and opened to the
public after restoration in 1983. The tug was built in 1923 for
Bayischen Lloyd but came into Hungarian hands in 1956, twelve years
after her sinking in the Danube after hitting a mine. Originally
named Ruthof, she was renamed after the location where she sank and
she served for the Hungarian state operator MAHART until 1975 running
the entire length of the Danube up as far as
Regensburg.
Engines : Compound Diagonal
Photos taken at Regensburg in 2011 shown by kind courtesy of Zsolt Szabo
Website of Ersekcsanad at the Donau Schiffahrtsmuseum at Regensburg
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