To commemorate the re-opening of the Transport Museum at Budapest on April 2, 1966-it was badly damaged during the war-the Hungarian Post Office issued two stamps showing various forms of transport in that country.
The ship on the 1 ft. stamp is a steam paddle tug, the Johann Baptist, owned by the Erste Kaiserliche and Koningliche Donau Dampfschiff Gesellschaft, Wien (First Imperial and Royal Danube Steamship Co. Ltd., Vienna). Built in 1853 at the shipyard of Obuda she was named after Freiherr Johann Baptist von Puthon, the first director of the company from 1829 to 1840.
The Johann Baptist had an overall length of 64.08 metres and her beam on the hull was 9.74 metres (on the paddle sponsons 16.59 metres). The engine was a single-cylinder, middle pressure, upper lever condensing engine of 300 h.p. The career and end of the vessel is unknown; presumably she was broken up in a Danube harbour.
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