Category:Vyšehrad (ship, Dr. Edvard Beneš 1938)

Ship edit

• Type:
• Design by: Mr. Joseph Huss
• Order date: 1937
• Built by: Ústecká yard for CZK 2.5 million.
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• Date of completion: 1938
• Length over all: 62 m
• LPP: m
• Beam: 6,2 m, 10,5 over the paddleboxes
• Draught: m
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• Main engine: CKD Praha. 165 kW
• Speed: 17 kn
• Passengers: Originally 885 passengers

History edit

• 1938 Named: Dr. Edvard Beneš for the Prague Steamboat Company. Flag: Czech Republic
• 1939 Renamed: Labe
• 1942 Renamed: Wischehrad
• 1945 Renamed: Dr. Edvard Beneš
• 1952 Renamed: Vyšehrad
• 1980s Extensive modernisation was planned. After the removal of the deck superstructures, it came to a halt in the 1990s and the steamer has been languishing ever since.