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Paddler Information => Research => Topic started by: cherryshad on April 07, 2011, 11:39:41 PM

Title: Request for help
Post by: cherryshad on April 07, 2011, 11:39:41 PM

Could anyone please help with id of this vessel and her precise location at the time? The pic was taken in May or June 1996 on the Romanian bank of the Danube.
 
MTIA

Title: Re: Request for help
Post by: Taifoon78 on April 09, 2011, 06:16:48 AM

I think she is here - romanian city Giurgiu.
Some photo of this vessel:
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/8740138 (http://www.panoramio.com/photo/8740138)
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/7193082 (http://www.panoramio.com/photo/7193082)

Title: Re: Request for help
Post by: Taifoon78 on April 09, 2011, 06:19:28 AM

Also I find this in :
(http://www.towingline.com/wp-content/gallery/historica/tudor_schip.jpg)
http://paddlesteamers.awardspace.com/TudorVladimirescu.htm (http://paddlesteamers.awardspace.com/TudorVladimirescu.htm)
http://www.danube-research.com/TVlad.htm (http://www.danube-research.com/TVlad.htm)

Title: Re: Request for help
Post by: AlistairD on April 12, 2011, 09:48:21 PM

Taifoon, your photo is of the passenger steamer Tudor Vladimirescu, built in 1854 as a tug for DDSG and the oldest operating steamer in the world.

The original photo is of a tug, I thunk it was preserved near the Iron Gates as a museum. My reference books are in storage at the moment, but I think the name may have been Vaskapu, http://www.danube-research.com/histships.htm has some photos of Romanian paddlers

Title: Re: Request for help
Post by: Taifoon78 on April 13, 2011, 03:22:49 AM

Yes, you're right - in http://www.paddleducks.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=5551.msg29994#msg29994 (http://www.paddleducks.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=5551.msg29994#msg29994) paddle steamer "Tudor Vladimirescu".
And in http://www.paddleducks.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=5551.msg29993#msg29993 (http://www.paddleducks.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=5551.msg29993#msg29993) may be the vessel from http://www.paddleducks.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=5551.msg29993#msg29993 (http://www.paddleducks.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=5551.msg29993#msg29993)
In Google Maps (http://maps.google.ru/maps?hl=en&tab=wl) her coordinates 43.884387,25.964615
I think it's the same vessel.

And some information about Vaskapu: http://www.hajoregiszter.hu/hajoadatlap/vaskapu_ex__erdap_ex_vaskapu_/2415/gyujtemenyek/8758#kepek (http://www.hajoregiszter.hu/hajoadatlap/vaskapu_ex__erdap_ex_vaskapu_/2415/gyujtemenyek/8758#kepek)