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Tudor Vladimirescu (1854)
''Tudor Vladimirescu'' is the oldest operational paddle steamer in the world, built in 1854 as a tugboat for the Austrian company DDSG. Currently, the ship is owned by Navrom Galați and is primarily used as a protocol ship for government and local officials and can be rented for luxury cruises. Construction ''Tudor Vladimirescu'' was built between 1851 and 1854 as the tugboat ''Croatia'' at the in Budapest. Together with her sister ship ''Pannonia'', ''Croatia'' was part of the ''Pannonia''-class of paddle tugs ordered by the Austrian company Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft (DDSG). She had a length of , a width of ( with the paddle wheels), a height of , and a draught of while carrying 70 tons of coal. Propulsion was provided by a two-cylinder steam engine, manufactured by the Escher Wyss & Cie. company from Zürich, which was supplied by two boilers. The engine powered two paddle wheels with 16 wooden blades each. The hull was made of iron while the deck and other com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tudor Vladimirescu
Tudor Vladimirescu (; c. 1780 – ) was a Romanian revolutionary hero, the leader of the Wallachian uprising of 1821 and of the Pandur militia. He is also known as Tudor din Vladimiri (''Tudor from Vladimiri'') or, occasionally, as Domnul Tudor (''Voivode Tudor''). Background Tudor was born in Vladimiri, Gorj County (in the region of Oltenia) in a family of landed peasants ('' mazili''); his birth year is usually given as 1780, but this is still debated. At the age of 12, he was sent to Craiova, in service to boyar Ioan Glogoveanu, where he would later learn rhetoric, grammar and the Greek language. He became administrator of the boyar's estate and, in 1806, was named '' vătaf'' (leader of the local militias) at Cloșani. Tudor's experience as a servant made him familiar with customs, habits and objectives of landowners; this insight helped him walk the fine line between conflicting interests of boyars and peasants in the first months of the uprising against the Phanariotes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
