The Sanssouci is a former passenger ship of the Weisse Flotte Potsdam and belongs to the poet class . The ship was put into service in 1962 and was the first ship in the White Fleet with this name and the first new building after the Second World War for passenger shipping in Potsdam .
The passenger ship was built as part of a large series of eight ships in the state-owned shipyard named after Etkar André in Magdeburg . The ship is 53 meters long and 8.08 meters wide. The average draft is 1.26 meters. It is driven by two motors from SKL Magdeburg. The passenger capacity was 725 people when it was commissioned, but was later reduced to 550.
The ship was sold in 1994. Reasons for this were, among other things, the low space capacity and the high maintenance costs. After the sale, the ship was used as a restaurant and party ship in Berlin from 1994 to 1999 at the Oberbaumbrücke on the Gröbenufer. In the shipyard malt the ship was overhauled and the new name Eagle Queen in the fleet of the Eagle ships queued and perverse as her sister ship, the Eagle River , on or between Gartz and Gryfino. When Poland joined the EU, the duty-free business was discontinued. The Adler Queen was then sold to Hamburg in 2004 , where it operated under the name Classic Queen for Hamburger Hafen & Veranstaltungsfahrten GmbH until 2016 . In 2016 the ship was sold to a Czech shipping company after renovations in Magdeburg.
literature
Paepke, Rook Sailors and Steamers on the Havel and Spree Brandenburgisches Verlagshaus / ISBN 3894880325
Dieter Schubert German inland passenger ships Illustrated ship register Uwe Welz Verlag Berlin 2000 / ISBN 3-933177-10-3
Kurt Groggert: Personenschiffahrt auf Havel and Spree Berlin contributions to the history of technology and industrial culture , Vol. 10, Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-7759-0153-1
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