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The "Szőke Tisza" steamship, more precisely the "Szőke Tisza II." was finished in 1917, at the manufacturing plant in Újpest, of "Ganz és Társa Danubius Villamossági, Gép- Waggon- és Hajógyár " Inc, originally named as "IV. Károly" after the reigning monarch of that time.

This was the biggest instance of side wheeled passenger steamships...

The "Szőke Tisza" ship – which was built 101 years ago, and it has been dying for 17 years, and which’s ownership has been changed several times – has been remembered in the past few days in Szeged. The most valuable pieces of the ship (already under protection) are still under water. In May last year, the state abandoned their right of pre-...