Built as a paddle steamer by United Schoenichen-Hartman Shipyard Machine & Boiler Works Budapest for the Magyar Flyam Tengerhajozasi R.T. (MFTR), Budapest.
Launched under the name DEÁK FERENCZ, named after a Hungarian statesman Deák Ferencz (1803-1876)
Dim. 77.20 x 7.70 x 2.70m., 15.00 meter over paddle boxes, length bpp. 75.00, draught 1.45m.
Powered by two triple expansion steam engine each 800 hp.
1896 Completed.
She was the first of four paddle steamers completed for the company.
1912 Overhauled at Orsuva.
During World War II in used as a floating accommodation for Hungarian Danube forces.
On the end of the war moved to Linz, Austria and taken by the American forces, later moved to Passau, Germany.
1947 Handed back to Hungary, managed by Meszhart at Budapest.
1953 Rebuild on the Marhart yard.
Dim. 77.90 x 7.70 x 2.71m., over paddlewheels 15.40m, length bpp. 75.20m., draught 1.70m.
Powered by two triple expansion steam engines, each 850 hp., speed 20 km.
Accommodation for 1200 passengers.
During the rebuilding one funnel was removed, as seen on the stamp, and she was refitted from coal to oil burning, by installing a new boiler.
1955 Managed by Marhart, Budapest.
1967 Out of service.
1968 Managed by SZOT at Budapest.
1974 Renamed DUNAGYÖNGYE, managed by Marhart in use as an accommodation vessel for workmen.
1978 During the reparation of the Margarethen Bridge in Budapest in use as an accommodation ship for workers, and in 1979 in use as an accommodation ship by the repair of the Petöfi Bridge.
Then she disappears, most probably scrapped.
Hungary 1941 20f sg 705, scott 575. 1967 30fi sg 2275, scott 1828 and 1981 1fo sg 3399, scott?
Source. Navicula. http://www.papernet.hu/?l=sdetails&i=7&lang=eng