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HISTORICAL PADDLE STEAMERS

Above : Post card view of Helvetia in the early twentieth century

VESSEL NAME

Built

Disposed of

Comments

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Helvetia

1875

1959

Built by Escher, Wyss & Cie. Length : 65.1 m.  Reboilered in 1894. Modernised in 1903. Sold in 1959 she saw temporary use as a restaurant for a horticultural exhibition. She was sold on for further use as a restaurant, but the new owner failed to get authorisation for this and in November 1961 she was towed to a lay-up berth at Nuolen in the Obersee. She was scrapped in 1963 with part of the hull sunk at Nuolen

Lukmanier

1865

1917

 

St Gotthard

1865

1903

 

Concordia 

1864

1903

Renamed Glarnisch in 1873

Linth-Escher

1862

1893

 

Rapperswil

1858

1895

 

Stadt Zurich

1856

1893

 

Schwan

1851

1879

 

Delphin

1847

1850

 

Gustav Albert

1846

1891

 

Republikaner

1839

1879

 

Linth-Escher

1839

1862

 

Minerva

1835

1839

 


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