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Johann Strauss
Above : Johann Strauss at Melk in 1970. Photo by kind courtesy of Bill Worden
Built at Linz in 1950 using hull
and machinery from two older steamers
Hull - iron, salvaged from PS Grein (built in 1853 as PS Carl Ludwig,
renamed in 1938) - Length : 70 metres
Machinery - Compound diagonal, by Sachsenberg Bros. salvaged from PS
Johann Strauss (ex-Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand, built 1913)
Built in 1950 to reopen
DDSG services between Linz and Passau after the end of World War
II
Superstructure : Salvaged from PS Johann Strauss
Withdrawn in 1972 after a breakage to the paddle shaft
Machinery removed
Sold for use as a restaurant near Vienna but this did not succeed and the company Brandner bough her for use at Waldsee in 1975
In
1979 she was sold to the Regensburg Brewery Company, and she opened for
business as a pub in Regensburg in 1980, lasting five years
Sold to the Viennese company WIGAST and moved to Vienna in November 1985 for conversion work at Freudenau harbour
Moved to central Vienna (Donaukanal at Schwedenplatz) in February 1986
Latterly known as "Clubschiff", with eating facilities open from
mid-afternoon and a discotheque through to the early hours of the morning
The
nightclub was closed in 2013 and the ship but she
remained at her prime location at the Salztorbrucke at Schwdenplatz,
Vienna
In
2017 the city authorities in Vienna forced her to
be put up for auction and she was towed to Freudenau Harbour on December
15th 2017
At auction on 4th May 2018 she was sold for 22568 Euros to scrap dealers
At the end of August 2018 she was moved to Komarno in Slovakia for scrapping
Above : Johann Strauss in 2006
JOHANN STRAUSS PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION
2006
2016
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