Dürnstein
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The
paddle steamer Siraly was built at Schiffswerft Budapest
in 1899 to do service as a passenger ferry on the Danube
river for the company Donau Dampfschiffahrt Gesellschaft.
In 1904 she was renamed Dürnstein, and under first world
war she was chartered by Lloyds Austraico and did service
at the city of Trieste. Little is known about her history
after the war, and she sank after an navigational error
during a storm south of Odessa 1. January 1944. According
to a few historical sources she was torpedoed by a Soviet
submarine, but this has not been verified. The wreck was
located in 2006 and rest today on a depth of approximately
25 meter outside Ilyichevsk in Ukraine.
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 Picture: Paddle steamer Dürnstein on the Danube Unknown photographer Last updated: November 2018 |
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