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Bonjour,

I wonder if someone ever heard of the French flagged tug PRESDENT FRAISSINET. It seems that she was employed from 1921-1941 under French flag at the river Danube, ossibly for the Donau-Commission ?

Steel/Paddlesteamer
Bld.: Dresdner Maschinenfabrik & Schiffswerft Übigau AG., Regensburg -1148-
L: 1915 T: 1915 Eng.: C2cyl diagonal 785ihp
275t L=59,1m B=15,72m D=2,55m d=1,1/0,9m

1915: D IV Bayerischer Lloyd, Regensburg /Ge 1916: D IV Feldeisenbahnchef Schiffahrtsgruppe Donau (FECH, Sg. Donau) 28.11.1916: MARITZA Imperial German Navy -Kaiserlich Deutsche Donau-Halbflottille (2-50mm SK / 2 MG) 1917: CAR FERDINAND Bulgarian Navy- transport- /Bu 12.11.1918: seized by Marine Nationale 1921: PRESIDENT FRAISSINET ??? –tug- /Fr 1941: arrived at İstanbul from the Danube

Any details about her French ownership and history after 1941 are higly welcomed!

Thanks
Jochen

The "Président Fraissinet" was owned by the SFND = Société Francaise de Navigation Danubienne, a French company for the navigation on the Danube with about a dozen tugs (mostly screw, but some paddletugs, too) and about 50 barges.
But I don't have any information about her fate, with the exception that she was part of the fleet which escaped into the Black Sea, while the bulk was seized and used by the Axis during the war.
Here is a picture of another tug if SFND, the "Jean Millot", buil 1886, off Linz.

Great news for the ownership, many thanks!
Jochen

By the way: As I saw it was based at Paris and Braila. Do you know the port of registery for those vessels?

Pictures taken after the war show the "Amiral Lacaze" with port of registry Paris, while "Pasteur" and "Jacques Vuccino" show Braila.
By the way, "Pasteur" is now at Strasbourg as part of a (seemingly defunct) shipping museum, while "Frédéric Mistral" is a floating museum at Wien: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_M ... 8Schiff%29.

Thank you kgvm for the infos!