PS Sudan (Nile, Egypt)

[Roderick Smith]

Amazingly, this preserved and operating paddlesteamer has had no Paddleducks thread or photo yet.
There is an Africa thread, and QPS Karim (also Nile, Egypt) has many references (and a photo in the home-page random selection).

See http://paddlesteamers.awardspace.com/Egypt.htm, which has photos from Bill Worden, and also a reference to PS Memnon (laid up) and PS Fostat / Mahasan / Time Machine / Nile Peking (a cruising restaurant in Cairo).

Extracted from
www.paddleducks.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=75.msg297#msg297
 
January 30, 2005
The film Mummy has a paddlesteamer in it.

PS Karnak (Sudan)
January 31, 2005
The steamer in the recent tv version of Death on the Nile is Sudan, built here in Paisley, around 1921, from memory, by Bow McLachlan for the Thomas Cook Nile fleet.
The paddle steamer in the film staring Peter Ustinov is Memnon, now a floating restaurant in Cairo
Alistair Deayton

Regards,
Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

[Roderick Smith]

I am weighing up which competing holiday to take in Sept.-Oct.
Option A covers two major pockets of narrow-gauge steam railway in China, plus a Yangtze voyage.
Option B covers the steam railway in Eritrea, with extra time in Egypt.
I am having no luck finding operational details of the Nile paddlesteamers on the web.
My specialist travel agent believes that none is in steam, victims of a decline in travel to Egypt.
PS Memnon: Has gone through two gimmicky renamings.  It is still a floating restaurant, but doesn't move.  However, the boiler is lit to hiss as a background to dinner.
QPS Karim: No news.  That part of the Jules Verne Travel website doesn't function.
PS Sudan: Nothing found.  I gather that it is based at Luxor.  Most Nile cruises are just the Luxor - Aswan (ie upriver); very few operators go downriver Luxor - Cairo.  Charter feluccas will do that.

Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor