DELIGRAD paddle steamer
Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 8:36 pm
At the 1948 Danube Conference it was agreed between Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia that the river transport along the Danube River should be free and equal for all freighters from all countries and that the necessary river dues should be uniform for all countries. The Danube convention between the littoral states was concluded at Belgrade.
Yugoslavia issued in 1948 a uniform set showing a bridge and steamers under which the former Royal yacht KRAJINA. sg 582/85.
On 14 December 1979, Yugoslavia issued a set of stamps where the motifs were chosen by the advertising manager of the Yugoslavia River Shipping, depicting historic Danube river steamers.
The DELIGRAD with a displacement of 45 ton, dim. 58 x 7.10m. Powered by a steam engine of 100 hp.
She was named after the Battle of Deligrad in which the Serbian got a victory over the Turkish forces in 1806.
She was the first steamer to sail the Danube under Serbian flag in 1862. She was one of the first ships of the domestic river fleet and a pioneer vessel of the Serbian Shipping Company; she was purchased from Russia along with eight barges and played a historic role in the liberation from Turkish rule.
March 1867, Prince Mihalja Obrenovic sailed on her to Constantinople to receive from the Sultan of Turkey the liberation “firman”; a month later the Turkish Pasha, Ali Riza (other source Ziza) accompanied by the remnants of the Turkish army, left Belgrade for ever, again on the DELIGRAD.
She became a hospital ship, transporting the wounded from the Drina to Belgrade during the 1876-1878 wars. Along with many other ships of the domestic river fleet was she destroyed soon after the outbreak of World War I.
Yugoslavia 1979 4d90 sg1910, scott?
Source: from a leaflet supplied by the Yugoslavia Post. Navicula and some web-sites.
Yugoslavia issued in 1948 a uniform set showing a bridge and steamers under which the former Royal yacht KRAJINA. sg 582/85.
On 14 December 1979, Yugoslavia issued a set of stamps where the motifs were chosen by the advertising manager of the Yugoslavia River Shipping, depicting historic Danube river steamers.
The DELIGRAD with a displacement of 45 ton, dim. 58 x 7.10m. Powered by a steam engine of 100 hp.
She was named after the Battle of Deligrad in which the Serbian got a victory over the Turkish forces in 1806.
She was the first steamer to sail the Danube under Serbian flag in 1862. She was one of the first ships of the domestic river fleet and a pioneer vessel of the Serbian Shipping Company; she was purchased from Russia along with eight barges and played a historic role in the liberation from Turkish rule.
March 1867, Prince Mihalja Obrenovic sailed on her to Constantinople to receive from the Sultan of Turkey the liberation “firman”; a month later the Turkish Pasha, Ali Riza (other source Ziza) accompanied by the remnants of the Turkish army, left Belgrade for ever, again on the DELIGRAD.
She became a hospital ship, transporting the wounded from the Drina to Belgrade during the 1876-1878 wars. Along with many other ships of the domestic river fleet was she destroyed soon after the outbreak of World War I.
Yugoslavia 1979 4d90 sg1910, scott?
Source: from a leaflet supplied by the Yugoslavia Post. Navicula and some web-sites.