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New Year's Eve - Monday 31st December | ||
| MPV Italie and MPV Vevey operated evening Dinner Cruises from the Upper Lake and Geneva respectively on Monday 31st December | |||
| PS Uri operated an evening Gala Dinner Cruise from Luzern at 1930 on Monday 31st December | |||
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In additional to the regular timetabled
sailings | |||
| Christmas Day - Tuesday 25th December | |||
| MPV Vevey and MPV Italie operated Christmas Lunch Cruises from Geneva and Lausanne respectively on Christmas Day - Tuesday 25th December | |||
| PS Uri operated a Christmas Lunch Cruise from Luzern at 1130 on Christmas Day - Tuesday 25th December | |||
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| PS Uri operated a Christmas Eve Gala Dinner Cruise from Luzern at 1930 on Monday 24th December | |||
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Owing to a shortage of motor vessels
She continued on this roster each day until Wednesday 24th October by which time mv Manzoni had completed her repairs enabling her to take over from the Thursday * - can you confirm or advise otherwise ? | |||
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PS Piemonte operated a
special International Charter
Cruise from Stresa (Italy) to Ascona at the Swiss end of the lake on
Sunday 30th September This sailing was open to the public | |||
| MPV Italia operated an evening Fireworks Cruise from Riva at 2115 on Saturday 25th August | |||
| PS Blümlisalp operated an evening Jazz Cruise from Thun at 1910 on Friday 17th August | |||
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PS Gallia suffered a
breakdown which caused
her to miss her booked sailings on both
Thursday 9th August and
Friday 10th August In consequence her sister PS Schiller "stepped-up" to cover her Best of Lake Luzern cruise to Brunnen and her teatime sailings 19-22-29-38 | |||
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Whilst operating her afternoon sailing 106 from Geneva
MPV Vevey got what turned out
to be a "slackline" wrapped around its starboard paddle as she approached the Eaux-Vives
pier - it had earlier been attached between two piles but had subsequently dropped into the
water - and after leaving these solid lines began to cause some overheating as well as
damaging the mechanism After the crew realised what the problem was she was terminated at Yvoire resuting in the remainder of her saiings planned for Thursday 2nd August being cancelled She was later towed back to Ouchy dock for repairs by mv Général-Guisan It is assumed her passengers either had to cross to Nyon slightly later on PS Savoie for an onward train connection or wait for the evening sailing back to Lausanne on PS Montreux In consequence mv Henry-Dunant was brought back from "standby" at Geneva yet again to cover her sailings from Friday 3rd August Following repairs, she returned to service slightly earlier than expected on Friday 10th August | |||
| Swiss National Day - Wednesday 1st August | |||
| PS La Suisse operated an evening Fireworks Cruise from Lausanne at 2015 on Wednesday 1st August | |||
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Fireworks at Brunnen All five paddle steamers paraded in convoy followed by some of the motor vessels from Luzern at 1945 to Brunnen for the annual fireworks display on Wednesday 1st August | |||
| PS Neuchâtel operated an evening Fireworks Cruise from Neuchâtel at 2000 on Wednesday 1st August | |||
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In additional to the regular afternoon
timetabled sailings | |||
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MPV Italie operated an
evening Fireworks
cruise from the Upper Lake piers to Le Bouveret on
Tuesday
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MPV Italie
returned to Lausanne dock for initially three days of repairs on
Tuesday 17th July and her Upper Lake sailings were covered
by The problems must have been more than originally anticipated as her stay was extended until Wednesday 25th July | |||
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Owing to further unknown problems, PS
Stadt Luzern remained at the
dock all day on both
Monday 16th July and
Tuesday 17th July Instead of her sisters "stepping up" to cover all the advertised "Gotthard Panoramic Express" sailings 13-24, the new mv Diamant did the honours The same arrangement also happened on the following day (Tuesday) | |||
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PS Neuchâtel
broke down at Neuchâtel after operating her morning sailing to Portalban on
Sunday 15th July
and engineers then appeared to be having problems with the mechanism for lowering the funnel
(necessary to pass under low bridge en route to and from Murtensee) Her lunchtime sailing to Murten was covered by mv Ville-de-Neuchâtel as well as her afternoon sailings ? Rudder problems were also later reported and she ended up missing all her sailings on Tuesday 17th July as well, but following repairs she was back in service on Thursday 19th July as seen at lunchtime at Murten | |||
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PS La Suisse
operated an evening
Fireworks cruise from Lausanne at 1950 to the display at
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PS Montreux
brokedown at Lausanne with technical problems before the start of service
on Thursday 12th July In consequence mv Henry-Dunant was brought back from "standby" at Geneva to cover sailings 906-907-487-488 to the Upper Lake and Yvoire She returned to service on Monday 16th July | |||
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Owing to unknown problems, PS Gallia
remained at the dock all day on
Thursday 5th July In consequence PS Schiller was brought out to cover her afternoon sailings 21-30 The same arrangement also happened on the following day (Friday) | |||
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Owing to unknown problems, PS Stadt
Luzern remained at the
dock all day on
Monday 2nd July In consequence PS Gallia was brought out to cover with most of her sisters "stepped up" to cover all the advertised paddle steamer sailings The same arrangement also happened on the following day (Tuesday) | |||
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Owing to unknown problems, PS Blümlisalp
remained at the dock
all day on Monday 2nd July In consequence mv Bubenberg was brought out to cover sailings 15-16 to Interlaken | |||
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PS Stadt Rapperswil
operated the first of several "new" Thursday evening
BBQ cruises
from Zurich on Thursday 28th
June Similar cruises also operated on 12th and 26th July, 23rd August and 6th September | |||
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Owing to unknown problems, PS
Blümlisalp broke down
on Friday 22nd June back from
Interlaken in the late afternoon In consequence her evening sailings 125-126 to Beatenbucht were covered by | |||
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Owing to unknown problems, PS
Unterwalden remained
at the dock for two days In consequence PS Gallia remained in service to cover with most of her sisters "stepping up" to cover most of the advertised sailings on both Thursday and Friday 21st and 22nd June although the afternoon Alpnachstad sailing had to be covered by mv Waldstätter | |||
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Owing to unknown probelems, PS Uri
remained at the dock all day In consequence PS Gallia was brought out to operate the 0910 sailings 7-18 to Fluelen and return on Tuesday 19th June The proplem must have be worse than initially thought as the SGV roster was further amended to repeat the same changes the following day | |||
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PS La Suisse remained at
Ouchy dock for further repairs In consequence the smaller MPV Vevey covered sailings 920-921-922-923 on Monday and Tuesday 14th and 15th May Do you have any further information ? | |||
| Swiss Navigation Day - Sunday 6th May | |||
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Both and PS Stadt Rapperswil
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Owing to unknown technical probelms,
PS La Suisse remained at
Ouchy dock In consequence mv Valais quickly covered sailings 920-921-922-923 on Sunday 29th April | |||
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Owing to unknown probelms, PS Unterwalden
remained at the dock all day In consequence PS Stadt Luzern (which had previously been used for a pre-season charter) was brought out to operate the 1110 "Gotthard Panorama Express" sailings 13-24 and PS Uri was planned to cover sailings 7-18 on Sunday 22nd April In the end mv Gotthard operated the early sailings 7-18 before towing that paddle steamer to dock - presumably also for repairs Far from the start to the season the SGV were hoping for !!! | |||
| Easter Sunday 1st April | |||
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| PS Unterwalden operated an Easter Lunch Cruise from Luzern at 1130 on Easter Sunday 1st April | |||
| PS Uri operated a winter evening "Candlelight Dinner Cruise" from Luzern at 2000 on Saturday 24th March | |||
| MPV Vevey and MPV Italie operated special Evening Valentines Dinner Cruises from Geneva and Lausnne respectively on Wednesday 14th February | |||
| New Year's Day - Monday 1st January | |||
| MPV Italie and MPV Vevey operated New Year's Day Lunch Cruises from Geneva and Lausanne respectively on Monday 1st January | |||
| PS Uri operated a New Year's Day Lunch Cruise from Luzern at 1130 on Monday 1st January | |||
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16th January 2022
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