shipwreck - Austrian wheel steamship "Durnstein"
My article: "A steamer that have passed through three centuries" ....The ship was constructed at Budapest shipyard in 1899. It was named the Siraly when launching and was renamed as the Durnstein after a small Austrian town located on the Danube River bank in the picturesque Wachau valley (1904). The steamer belonged to the first Danube steam shipping company. This organization was created by the Government of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1829 for the construction of the Francis, the first steamboat on the Danube (it was launched in 1830). By the end of the 19th century (when the Durnstein had been constracting) the first Danube steam shipping company was already the world’s largest one. Its property included more than 200 ships and about 1000 cargo barges. By the way the company still exists today. However, they changed the owner in 1993 when the government sold it to a private individual, and they divided it into two companies, freight one and passenger one. The Durnstein had the following specifications: length – m, width – m, draft – m; engine (by Schiffswerft, Budapest) – steam power, all-wheel drive, reciprocating, 365 hp. Before the Second World War the ship had a peaceful life of a passenger vessel cruising mostly between ports in Austria, sometimes it expanded its horizons and visited other Danube countries. Fragments of the ship’s documents and a map showing mooring in the Danube ports prove this. During the war the vessel was mobilized for military service as an emergency water
Size: 2860px × 4304px
Location: Snake Island (Zmiinyi Island or Serpent Island), Black Sea, Odessa, Ukraine, Eastern Europe
Photo credit: © Andrey Nekrasov / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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