Paddlers from the Netherlands

[Channel]

Hollands 2 paddlers seen at the Dordt in Stoom show.

De Majesteit







Kapitein Kok





And finally Tourmalijn, not a paddler sadly but she does a good impression. She is powered by voith units in the sponsons . . . 

[derekwarner_decoy]

Hi PD's.....& thanks Channel.......interesting....the De Majesteit confirms three rudders so I suspect actually x four  ....Derek

[mjt60a]

the third pic looks like 'Wappen Von Koln' - http://www.gioair.de/luftbilder/slides/Wappen%20von%20Koeln.html
when I saw this boat in cologne (about 25 years ago) it was moored with 'DS Rudesheim' and I, being unable to see properly from the shore, thought it was a diesel paddler because of the apparent sponson houses but I see now it's not!

[AlistairD]

WAPPEN VON KÖLM, WAPPEM VON MAINZ, LORELEY and BERLIN have/had sponsons with Voith-Schneider propulsion units underneath them. The first two re still in the fleet, BERLIN was sold to the Netherlands last year and I think LORELEY was scrapped, so this must be the former BERLIN

There were also some similar but smaller vessels operating on the River Weser between Hamaln and Hann. Münden

[Roderick Smith]

De Majesteit home page in Dutch: www.raderstoomboot.nl, but opens with a steam whistle.
clicking brings up the English summary of history and specs
of direct at www.raderstoomboot.nl/index.php?id=2
You have to use the Dutch version to access the full history, techspecs and deckplans.

The photo book is one of those horrible log-in affairs.

There is one photo in a pool of 316 paddlesteamer photos at flickr
http://www.flickr.com/groups/1018258@N23/pool/
That pool seems to be 60% PS Waverley; 19% other UK; 20% Europe, mainly Switzerland.

Regards,
Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

[Roderick Smith]

I am now hunting for a website for PS Amsterdam.

Along the way: cute steam launch De Amstel.
www.canal.nl/groepsarrangementen/en/saloonsteamer

Self-pedalled canal boats:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2U0lRXPxwU

It is not mentioned on
http://paddlesteamers.freehostia.com/PaddleSteamerList.htm
which does have a link back to the De Majesteit page.

It is not in Alistair's Directory of the world's steamships, so I presume that it is diesel.

End of search: nothing found, other than this Paddleducks thread.

Regards,
Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor