FELZABADULAS paddle steamer

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Built in 1917 as a paddle steamer at Ganz-Danubius at Budapest for the MFTR as IV KAROLY.
Dim. After latest rebuilding, 75.0 x 7.7m., over paddleboxen 15.3m.
Triple expansion diagonal steam-engine, 800 hp. (now oil fired)
Passenger accommodation formerly 800 day passengers or 175 cabin passengers.

She was a large two-funnel paddle steamer.
1919 Renamed in SAS.
1926 Renamed SZENT IMRE.
1948 Renamed FELSZABADULAS.
1958 Refitted in a cruise paddle steamer for long distance, downstream the Danube to the Iron Gates, with 175 berths
August 1974 withdrawn from service, and laid up at Budapest, used as canteen vessel for MHRT, the new name of the company since 1956.
Sold in 1979 to the town of Szeged, and towed via Yugoslavia to that town, which lay on the River Tisza which flows into the Danube. First in use as a floating-hotel.
2009 She is still moored at that town under the name SZOKE TISZA, when renamed not clear. Used as a restaurant???, other sources give laid up.

Hungary 1981 6fo sg3404, scott? (she is the paddlesteamer on the stamp, the other ship is the TIHANY)

Source Navicula, Steam Ships of Europe by Alistair Deayton.