Will Van Dorp – Tugster – 1922 Side Wheel Tugboat

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Thanks to Jan van der Doe,

enjoy these photos of

a radschleppdampfer,

translated as “side wheel steamer,”

a museum ship in Duisburg, Germany.

The side wheel barge tug Oscar Huber

was built in Duisburg Ruhrort in 1922.

She towed barges until 1966

between Rotterdam and Karlsruhe,

about a 300-mile trip on the Rhine.

She’s a sole survivor, the only of its kind

on the Rhine River saved from scrapping.

In 1974 it was turned into a museum.

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