The paddle steamer depict on the stamp is given as the GROF SZECHENY ISTVAN, there is a GROF SZECHENYI sailing on the River Danube but comparing the ship depict on the stamp with the still sailing GROF SZECHENYI she can not be the two funnel paddle steamer depict on the stamp. Not any other GROF SZECHENYI ISTVAN exists.
By comparing photo’s on the http://hajoregiszter.hu site I believe the vessel depict is the SZECHENYI ISTVAN built in 1896 see http://hajoregiszter.hu/hajoadatlap/sze ... tvan/54/en
Built as a paddlesteamer under yard No 602 by Schoenichen-Hartmann Shipyard, Machine & Boiler Works, Budapest/Ujpest for the Hungarian River & Sea Nav. Co. Ltd., (MFTR), Budapest.
Dim. 77.20 x 7.70 (over paddles 15.00m) x 2.70m., draught 1.40m., length bpp. 75.00m.
Powered by a 3-cyl. compound expansion steam engine, 800 hp.
1896 Completed.
Used in the passenger service on the River Danube.
18 August 1914 above Orsova near Ogradina on the Danube River (962 km) she came under fire of Serbian artillery and was sunk.
Attempts to salvage her were unsuccessful.
Hungary 1981 2fo sg3402, scott? (the ship on the stamp in the stamp is the tug SZEKSZARD.)
Source: the already given web-site.
SZECHENYI ISTVAN paddle steamer 1896.
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SZECHENYI ISTVAN paddle steamer 1896.
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