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Helios (later Kaukusus then Don)
Above
: Express steamer Helios, the final paddle steamer built for the
DDSG and the ultimate design before diesel-electric paddlers Stadt
Wien and Stadt Passau of 1939/40.
Source : From a Bulgarian post card of the 1920s now in the public domain.
Built in 1922 in
Obuda, Budapest
Engines : Compound Diagonal
Dimensions : 78 m x 9.0 / 17.4 m
Converted to oil firing
in 1936
Sunk near Hainburg in 1945
Raised by the Soviet occupation forces and rebuilt at Korneuburg
Renamed Kaukusus when taken over by Soviet owners.
Originally sailed on the Danube but moved to the USSR in the mid 1950s and renamed Don
Ran aground in 1962 and broke her back when attempts were made to lift her
Above : With Soviet funnel colours and operating on the Danube in the Soviet Occupation Zone as Kaukusus. Card by kind courtesy of Markus Graf
Above : Operating as Don after being transferred to the Soviet Union. Image by kind courtesy of Markus Graf
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