Russian, Polish and other paddlers

[torbjorn]

Greetings,

Is it possible to find anything (pictures, plans, drawings, and such)
about Russian, Soviet, Polish, ... Chinese and Japanese paddle
steamers? That is, everything except the usual suspects. Books, links,
anything?

Regards
Torbjörn

[B Worden]

See

http://www.riverships.ru/english/types/737_specs.shtml

for a listing and description of the 737 series of
Soviet paddle steamers, almost all built in Hungary in
the 1950s.

There is an article on Russian paddler N.V. Gogol of
1911 in Steamboat Bill Winter 2002 - Number 244; see
https://ssl-001.9netave.com/cgi-bin/ux202231/sshsa2/toe/web_store.cgi

Several derelict Polish steamers are listed in
Alistair Deayton's "Steamships of Europe" published in
1988.

[Alistair Deayton]

I just got a couple of links yesterday with some information on Polish
paddle steamers.
http://fow.idysk.com/viewtopic.php?t=496&start=0
> http://fow.idysk.com/viewtopic.php?t=571

www.riverships.ru/english/ship_types.shtml covers Russian ones, (there is an
underline between ship and types if you are copying it and not just
clicking)
I do not know of any Chinese paddle steamers.
In Japan, there are a couple of replicas of early paddlers at a theme park
village, I think it is Holland Village, although they are not steam powered

Alistair Deayton

[torbjorn]

--- In Paddleducks@yahoogroups.com, "Alistair Deayton" <Alistair@d...>
wrote:
> I just got a couple of links yesterday with some information on Polish
> paddle steamers.
> http://fow.idysk.com/viewtopic.php?t=496&start=0
> > http://fow.idysk.com/viewtopic.php?t=571

Thanks! (Though my Polish is rather nonexistent :-)

> www.riverships.ru/english/ship_types.shtml covers Russian ones,
(there is an
> underline between ship and types if you are copying it and not just
> clicking)

Yes, I found that one a few days ago, but I haven't been able to find
any pictures of the paddlers - yet.

> I do not know of any Chinese paddle steamers.

There are some medieval human powered ones in _Fighting Ships of the
Far East (1)_ (Osprey New Vanguard 61), but there are of course not
steamers ;-) and I was hoping for something slightly more modern.

> In Japan, there are a couple of replicas of early paddlers at a
theme park
> village, I think it is Holland Village, although they are not steam
powered

Ah, I might have expressed myself badly: I'm not interested in
preserved paddle steamers as such, but (visual representations of)
paddle steamers existing (or dreamed of :-) in the 19th and early 20th
centuries.

> Alistair Deayton

Regards
Torbjörn