SWPV Finlandia Queen (Finland)

[Roderick Smith]

There was a flurry of posting about this vessel in 2007.

http://www.paddleducks.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3022.msg13016#msg13016
Jorma Tuomi-Nikula
Elias Lonnrot and Finlandia Queen are in service on Finnish lakes.  Finlandia Princess is sold to Germany some years ago. Ilmarinen is the first paddler on our lake-system.

Here is a photo at Tampere (Finland), apparently taken in 2000:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tampere_Finlandia_Queen.jpg
This is but one in a folio of 11 of various tourist paddleboats at
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tourist_paddle_boats

The watermark to this site has to be Swiss, not Finnish:
www.simplonpc.co.uk/Finlandia1981.html

Regards,
Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

[AlistairD]

www.simplonpc.co.uk is a UK site, run by Ian Boyle, publisher of a lot of shipping postcards under the Simplon Postcards brand.
This was so called because his first card was the Lake Geneva paddle steamer SIMPLON