This description is as printed in Sea Breezes and written by Ernest Argyle. Gibbons names this vessel as HELIOS.
Any comments would be appreciated.
It was originally intended that the 24gr. stamp should feature the Franz Schubert, a modern vessel at the time the stamps were issued and this is the name given in the " Gibbons Stamps Catalogue ". But for some reason unknown to me the Franz Schubert was not shown and it now appears that the vessel depicted is the Uranus, built in 1915 as the Kaiser Wilhelm II She was one of four similar vessels, built between 1915 and 1922; the others were the Jupiter, Saturn and Helios. The Jupiter was originally named Kaiser Franz Joseph I, but the Imperial names were changed in 1918. The vessel was 78 metres in length, had a 1,000-h.p. compound engine and could carry 1,400 passengers. She ran on the service between Vienna and Giurgiu. In 1935 she was converted to burn oil fuel. After the Second World War she was laid-up with the Saturnus as hotel ships and moored near the Lindzer Lande, but was scrapped in 1948.
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