Vevey (ship)
The Vevey is a motor ship powered by paddle wheels on Lake Geneva , which was built in 1907 by the Sulzer brothers in Winterthur as a paddle wheel steamer .
history
The ship is characterized by a 1st class salon in Art Nouveau style that has been preserved in its original state. With a length of 66 meters and a width of 14 meters, the Vevey currently has a capacity of 560 people. The ship, which is named after the town of Vevey on Lake Geneva, was converted to diesel-electric propulsion between 1953 and 1955 and was last extensively overhauled in 2012 and 2013.
The paddle steamer is one of eight paddle steamers from the Compagnie Générale de Navigation sur le Lac Léman (CGN), which received the Europa Nostra Prize of the European Union for European cultural heritage in 2014 for the exemplary preservation of the Belle Époque steamship fleet. These eight paddle steamers still have a significant impact on passenger shipping on the entire Lake Geneva area.
literature
- J. Meister, J. Gwerder, E. Liechti: Shipping on Lake Geneva. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1977.
- Charlotte Kunz: The paddle steamers of Lac Léman. (Swiss art guide. No. 316). Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1982, ISBN 3-85782-316-X .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brochure of the Associatioin des Amis des Bateaux à Vapeur du Léman (ABVL), edition 2015, page of M / S Vevey
- ↑ ge.ch, French-language commercial register of the canton of Geneva, spelling Compagnie Générale de Navigation sur le Lac Léman for the entry of Michel Jeannet (ship restoration). Accessed on November 29, 2016
- ↑ www.abvl.ch Communiqué de Press, Europa Nostra, Palmarès 2014 du Prix du patrimoine culturel de l'UE, accessed on November 16, 2016
- ↑ www.rts.ch, Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS), Les bateaux Belle Époque de la CGN sont classés, dated June 17, 2011, accessed on November 16, 2016