Coal Fired Paddlewheeler DIESBAR

Monday, June 11. 2007

The coal-fired paddlewheel steamboat DIESBAR was built in 1884 for the Elbe River and is still in service today, running almost daily, based in Dresden, Germany. The engines are John Penn & Son, Greenwich/UK, have been taken from the 1841 built BOHEMIA (later named STADT MEISSEN), coal firing, 110 hp. The boat's dimensions are length 53,51 m, width 5,07 m (incl. wheelhouse 10,20 m), holding a maximum of 175 passengers.

Posted by Franz Neumeier in Picture of the Week at 01:58 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

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This is right, here is some more info on this.

http://www.saechsische-dampfschiffahrt.de/?sprache=en

#1 Dresden (Link) on 2007-06-14 15:55 (Reply)

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