UNITED KINGDOM
Location : Truro
Original use : Small excursion steamer on the River Dart
Built : 1914
Current Use : None
Engines : Removed
Notes : Future uncertain. Compund diagonal engine is owned by the Paddle Steamer Preservation Society and are in storage
Location : Balloch (West Dunbartonshire)
Original use : Excursion steamer on Loch Lomond
Built : 1953
Current Use : Open for visitors as an attraction
Engines : In situ. Triple expansion diagonal
Notes : Her charitable owners are working towards restoring her for a return to service on Loch Lomond
Location : Gillingham
Original use : Ferry and Excursion ship on the outer parts of the River Medway and Thames Estuary
Built : 1924
Current Use : Open for visitors as an attraction
Engines : In situ. Compound diagonal
Notes : Substantially rebuilt in 2011 with continuing work towards restoring her fully
Location : Hartlepool
Original use : Ferry on the Humber Estuary between Hull and New Holland
Built : 1934
Current Use : Exhibit and cafeteria at the town's Municipal Museum at Hartlepool Marina
Engines : In Situ. Triple expansion, diagonal
Notes : Currently closed on safety grounds and awaiting major refurbishment (2020)
Location : Portalban
Original use : Excursion vessel on the Lac de Neuchatel
Built : 1913
Current Use : Restaurant
Engines : Removed.
Notes : Out of the water. Attached to Motel-Restaurant St Louis around 500 m from the lakeside
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Location : Lucerne
Original use : Excursion vessel on Lake Lucerne
Built : 1908
Current Use : Restaurant
Engines : In situ. Compound diagonal
Notes : Substantially as she was when withdrawn from service in 1970
Location : Mannheim
Original use : Public transport service and excursion steamer on River Rhine
Built : 1929
Current use : Museum
Engines : In situ. Compound diagonal
Location : Oderburg
Original use : Public transport service and excursion steamer on River Elbe
Built : 1897 (as Habsburg)
Current use : Museum
Engines : In situ. Compound oscillating
Location : Utting, Bavaria
Original use : Public transport service and excursion steamer on the Ammersee
Built : 1907
Current use : Yacht club clubhouse
Engines : Removed
Andechs (1907-1955) is preserved as a floating yacht club clubhouse at Utting on her home lake, Ammersee in Bavaria.
Location : Dresden
Original use : Public transport service and excursion steamer on the River Elbe
Built : 1963
Current use : Hotel at Dresden-Neustadt harbour
Engines : Removed (formerly diesel-electric)
Location : Dresden
Original use : Public transport service and excursion steamer on the River Elbe
Built : 1963
Current use : Youth Hostel at Dresden-Neustadt on riverbank
Engines : Removed (formerly diesel-electric)
Meissen
Bremerhaven, Germany
The
central section of the German river paddle steamer Meissen (1881-1968)
has been preserved as an exibit in one of the halls in the Deutshes
Schiffahrts Museum. The ship sailed out of Dresden on the Elbe until
1907 and after then on the River Weser out of Hameln.
Website : https://www.dsm.museum/ausstellung/exponate/meissen/
Location : Seeburg
Original use : Public transport service and excursion steamer on the River Elbe
Built : 1882
Current use : Restaurant (on dry land) in much-altered form
Engines : Removed
Dunkerque, France
The former Southampton-Isle of Wight (England) paddler of 1927 was moved to Dunkerque on the northern French coast after being moved from her berth at Paris where she served as a floating art gallery and conference centre at Pont Mirabeau and is now a floating restaurant at the Pole Marine shopping centre.
The former Lake Maggiore paddler serves
as a floating restaurant at Arona, where she has been moored
since 1969. She served on the lake from 1908 until 1958 and
was first used as a restaurant at Baveno.
NETHERLANDS
Hugo Basedow (trading as Jos Franken)
Nijmegen, Netherlands
Former lower River Elbe steamer now used as a floating church for itinerant workers and sailors in Nijmegen harbour
SPAIN
Willow
Benalmadena, Spain
Former US Coastguard cutter, built in 1925 by the Dubuque
Boat & Boiler Co in Iowa for the Lighthouse Sevice on the Mississippi.
200 feet long with an extremely large breadth of 65 feet, she
served until late 1944 when she was involved in a collission and
paid-off in 1945. She became an accommodation boat for the US army
Corps of Engineers, having had her machinery removed. Sold in 1962,
she went to Florida 10 years later but lay abandoned until sold
to Themes International based in the UK, crossing the Atlantic to
Southampton on a semi-submersible in 1989. She went to Antwerp,
Belgium for refurbishment but Themes went out of business and Willow
remained at Antwerp until 1995 when she returned to the UK, this
time to Birkenhead. Her next move was to Spain in 1996 for operation
as a restaurant ship. In 2019 the ship had partially sunk at her mooring.
Photo of Willow in service : https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AN47RQEBXFTVGL8W
HUNGARY
Close to the Chain Bridge (Szechenyi lanchid) on the Pest side of Budapest, Hungary, Kossuth (1914-78) , serves from Spring to Autumn as a bar/restaurant, with maritime museum exhibits on the lower decks. She emerged after substantial reconstruction in 1953 named Kossuth, having carried three previous names, being built in 1914 as Ferencz Ferdinand Foherczeg. She assumed her current role in 1986 and is now owned by a museum organisation with the restaurant operated privately. In 2008 she was extensively refurbished, including considerable attention to her hull.
Pamjaty Azina (trading as Hotel Aquamarina)
Budapest,
Hungary
Trading as the Hotel Aquamarina. This former Russian river Volga paddle steamer, built in 1903, has
been restored to act as a good-quality hotel moored on the Buda
side of the Danube in the northers suburbs of Budapest, having been
bought by the MINOL company in 2005. Originally called "Grand
Duke Alexander Mihkailovich", she became "Kharkov"
in 1917. In 1924 she became "Pamjaty Tovaritscha Azina".
In 1950 it was substantially rebuilt and became "Pamjaty
Azina". Withdrawn in 1991 it is believed to have
been bought for use in Albania but this never materialised.
Propeler (trading as Slovakeana.sk)
Bratislava, Slovakia
After lying in a dilapidated condition alongside the bank of the
Danube at Nove Pristavisko, near Rusovce on the very short part
of the river lying entirely in Slovak territory near Bratislava,
the paddler Propeler was renovated and reopened as a museum on the
southern bank of the Danube at Petrzalka (Bratislava) by the Slovakeana.sk
culture and heritage protection organisation as an art gallery.
She spent most of her life as a ferry at Bratislava named Devin
and her latter
years first as a restaurant moored in Bratislava and then a night
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Republica
Tulcea,
Romania
A former naval tug, she was maintained in working condition in the ownership of the city of Tulcea since 2003 and was reboilered (to burn oil rather than coal). In 2008 Republica was listed as a national cultural heritage "monument". She is maintained in operational condition but it is understood that these are now halted on account of the condition of the boiler and she serves as a restaurant with attached museum in Tulcea.
UKRAINE
RUSSIA
Sviatitel Nikolai
Krasnoyarsk,
Russia
Built
in 1887 by Tyumen factury at Kurbatova for businessman Alexander Sibiryakov,
it had the distinction of carrying crown prince Nicholas (later
the last Tsar) in 1891 and then, communist agitator V.I. Lenin into exile in 1897.
56.2 m x 8,25 m in dimension. In 1927 she was concerted to an oil
barge and laid up in 1960.
She now lies as a museum ship at Krasnoyarsk, the point deep in Siberia to where Lenin was taken
over 100 years ago. The ship has now been taken out of the river Yenisey, but lies only feet from the waters on which she once
sailed. She is open to the public for a small entry fee.
In 2011,
the laid-up paddle steamer Vysehrad (I) whose name
is now used by an operational paddler in the same location, was moved to central
Prague from her upstream berth for use as temporary exhibition space. She is
listed in the "laid Up Steamers" section of this database
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PRESERVED PADDLE TUGS
(including those with secure futures and those "at risk")
Although
no side-wheel steam* paddle tugs remain in operation, a remarkable number of these
"working" boats survive. Closely linked with local trade and industry,they
are poular candidates for preservation. Their generally smaller size helps to
minimise the cost, but their public appeal is surely more limited than for a
passenger steamer.....
* A number of motor powered side-wheel paddle tugs
are believed to be in operation in Russia and the Ukraine
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