Egypt
Paddler in static operation as a restaurant
Le Pacha (1901)
According to legend, a wealthy Egyptian Pacha decided to build his own floating retirement palace on the Nile but died in 1901 before he could fulfil his dream of living aboard in some luxury. The boat fell into disrepair and lay partially sunken for a long period of time until discovered, identified, refurbished and modernised for reopening in 1992 by Johnny Zahra, a well know businessman in the Cairo hospitality scene. It is now a five-star entertainment centre with a range of restaurants and function rooms and has won may international awards for the standard of its cuisine. Clearly it is far removed from the original form with two decks added during its modern reconstruction. It is moored on the Nile at Gezira Island at Cairo at Saray El-Geriza St.
In static operation as museum ships
PT Eppleton Hall
San Francisco, CA
In private ownership and open as an entertainment venue
In Private Ownership
Built as Ferry Co No 2 for service at Portland before being moved for San Francisco in 1898 and being renamed Vallejo. Withdrawn in 1948 but saved from the scrapyard by three artists who bought the ship for use as a studio and houseboat. Most of the machinery remains in situ.
Wikipedia page : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vallejo_(ferry)
Sausalito
Antioch, CA
Sausalito serves as the clubhouse for the Sportsmen Yacht Club at Antioch and is moored in a harbour off the San Joaquin river. She has been here since 1934, soon after retirement. She was built in 1894 by the Fulton Ironworks in San Francisco for the North Pacific Railroad Company and carried railway wagons amongst others from San Francisco to Sausalito . She was involved in the worst ferry disaster in San Francisco bay in 1901 when she rammed and sank the ferry San Rafael near Alcatraz island with the loss of three lives. Her engines have been removed
Website : http://www.sportsmenyc.org/syc01.htm
Exequiel Ramos Mejia (1911)
Roque Saenz Pena (1911)
The
British were well known for their involvement in the construction of the railway
system in Argentina, and their shipyards also supplied ferries to work in association
with the railways. A&J Inglis, whose yard was at Pointhouse, Glasgow and
is well known for being the builders of the famous surviving paddle steamer
Waverley, built a number of train ferries for Argentina, including two paddlers
for the Entre-Rios Company, which operated until 1990. These ships linked Argentina
and Paraguay across the Parana river at Posadas/Encarnacion and served together
from 18th October 1913 until 8th March 1990 when a railway bridge was opened.
They still exist although laid up near Posadas.
President Roque Saenz Pena
is in the better condition and in recent years but local railway enthusiasts
have adopted it and made it into a small railway museum, open since 2002. It
has also been used for entertainment functions. In 2003, the two ferries were
declared National Historic Monuments, and are now unique survivors, being train
ferries.
Whilst much of the engine and boilers remain, valuable brass has
been stripped out
BRAZIL
Blumenau (1895)
Photo taken on February 18th 2009 kindly
made available for publication by Dieter W under Creative Commons
Licence :
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28 metres x 4.4 metres. Built in Dresden, Germany but assembled in Itajai, Brazil, for the Itajai-Blumenau Steam Navigation Company sailing between the two settlements for which the company was named as "Vapor Blumenau" ie Blumenau Steam. Sailed until the 1950s and then preserved as a public attraction with a historical display concerning local river navigation. A refurbishment in 2002 sought to return her to approximate her original design. The boilers and engine remain intact.