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OPERATIONAL PADDLE TUGS : (Last review - 2013)
It appears that there may be a number of paddle tugs, most probably motor-powered sidewheelers, still in operation in Russia, the Ukraine and parts of the former Soviet Union.
Motor paddle tugs from the Soviet Project
1721/1721L series - built between 1973 and 1985 :
Internet Link for
more details and photos : http://www.riverfleet.ru/fleet/list.php?SECTION_ID=3156
Project 1721 : Built at Pervomaiskiy Shipyard, Kazakhstan
for use on the upper Irtysh River. 51.5 m x 17.3 m x 2.3 m
BTK
616
BTK 620
BTK 622
BTK 630
BTK 632
BTK 634
BTK 636
Project 1721L : Built at Zhataysky Shipyard, Zhatay, Russia
for use on the River Lena, Siberia. 43.2 m x 16.9 m x 2.3 m
BTK
601 - now called "Mechanic Korzennikov"
BTK 602
BTK 603
BTK
605
BTK 608
BTK 609
BTK 610
BTK-623 (built 1982) owned
by Trans-Fleet Lt, registered at Tyumen, Russia in 2008 : http://fleetphoto.ru/ship/4956/
BTK-629
seen at Pavlodar, Kazakhstan :
BTK-631 appears to be in service
at Omsk, Russia :
Bolat Karentaev appears to
be in service in Kazakhstan :
Other vessel types :
BTK-20 appears
to be in operation at Pechora, Russia : see photo http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/5107/vladimi-shulae.5/0_52e95_7b7090ce_orig
FOMER TUGS RECONSTRUCTED FOR PASSENGER SERVICE - NOW IN OPERATION OR UNDER RENOVATION
Former steam tugs on the Danube
Republica (steam) Understood not to be in service on account of boiler problems but in use as a restaurant with attached museum on the Tulcea city waterfront
Radetzky, ex-Plovdiv (reengined)
Early motor tug (1911) operating in Poland, rebuilt for passenger service
Former
tug being reconstructed for passenger service in Russia :
Bistryi
Bystryi was built in 1955 in Kiev at the Lenin Shipyard and was the last
of her type on the Volga when it was mooted in 1996 to preserve her for the
Polytechnic museum. This never happened and she was laid up at Volgoreschensk.
However she was bought by a company based in Yaroslavl in 2006 and after refurbishment
was planned to be moved there for tourist purposes as a passenger steamer. Current status unknown.
See
more on the Reactivation Projects page
STEAM TUGS AS MUSEUM EXHIBITS
Above : Ersekcsanad (ex-Ruthof) at Regensburg on August 2nd, 2017
Eppleton Hall : In San Francisco, USA
Oscar Huber : In Duisburg, Germany
Wurttemberg : In Magdeburg, Germany
Ersekcsanad : In Regensburg, Germany
Neszmely : In Neszmely, Hungary
Zoltan : In Neszmely, Hungary
http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/astrakhanfoto/album/169934/
Is this ship the former "Pamyat Smelova" ?
STEAM PADDLE TUGS LAID-UP OR UNDER RENOVATION
John H Amos : In Chatham, England
Decebal : In Braila, Romania
Zupa : In Belgrade, Serbia
Srbija : In Belgrade, Serbia
Vojvodina : In Serbia
Possible surviving tugs of the Soviet Project 732 (or smaller 733) series
A large number of project 732 tugs were built in Hungary
from 1947 until 1957 primarily for the USSR market although examples went
to Bulgaria, Romania and the final example remained in Hungary
Built
in Obudai Shipyard, Budapest : Length 57.9 m, Breadth 7.6/17.5 m
A
list of these is included in the Hungarian Ship Register : http://www.hajoregiszter.hu/index.php?cnl=1022&gc=B/I.
Known survivors of the 732 project :
Plovdiv, now rebuilt and in use as as passenger
ship "Radetsky" in Bulgaria, profiled in the Operational
Paddle Ships section
OPERATIONAL
:
Schorch, possibly still in working order at Pechora, Russia. Photo
at http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/4511/vladimi-shulae.3/0_50747_89ecacd4_orig
MUSEUM :
Bakony, now
preserved by the Zoltan Foundation in Hungary as "Neszmely" and profiled
in the museum section on this page above.
DERELICT or PART-SUNKEN :
General
Cherniakovskiy : 1953
This
tug appears sunken and derelict at Ivankivs'kiy, in the Kiev Oblast, Ukraine :
Entry
in the Hungarian Ship Register site : http://www.hajoregiszter.hu/index.php?ship=2383&friss=1&picid=12972#12972
7.
Noviembrie : 1954
Romanian-owned
example now sunken on the Danube near Orsova :
Entry
in the Hungarian Ship Register site : http://www.hajoregiszter.hu/index.php?ship=2817&gyl=1#menusor
SIDE WHEEL MOTOR PADDLE TUGS IN STATIC PRESERVATION
Stary Dunaj In Rusovce, Slovakia
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PT Admiral In Rusovce, Slovakia