Helvétie (2)
Page 3: Photographs
Compagnie Générale de Navigation sur le lac Léman (CGN)
This page is one of a series devoted to postcards and photographs of the
Compagnie Générale de Navigation sur le lac Léman (CGN) steamer
Helvétie (2)
. This page shows photographs of the
Helvétie (2)
. Other
Helvétie (2)
pages
are listed below
. There is a table of all CGN individual ship histories on the
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.
Helvétie (2)
was built in 1926, the last of Lake Geneva's trio of 70 metre steamers. Uniquely on Lake Geneva, she had a 3-Cylinder engine. In the 1960s,
Helvétie (2)
ran on the
Transl
émanique
service - an express service calling at major piers only which traversed much of the lake in about six and a half hours. This service finished in 1974, at the time when boiler problems began to restrict
Helvétie's
operations.
In 2004,
Helvétie (2)
was laid up at Lausanne-Ouchy awaiting a decision on replacement of her twin diesel engines, which had been removed from th Danube paddle tug
Goliath
. Unlike the other diesel-electric conversions by CGN, this arrangement was not a success, with frequent failures of the electrical equipment over the first few years of service. Initially used after conversion on the daily Geneva-St Gingolph-Geneva run, she was soon consigned to use on evening dinner cruises from Geneva to Yvoire a couple of times a week. Unlike the other conversions, noise and vibration were considerable at speed, although she did seem to be extremely fast when required to make up for delays. Her original steam engines are located in a museum at Nyon, and there were suggestions that they might be restored to her, although this now seems most unlikely.
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Helvétie (2)
Page 3: Photographs
Helvétie (2)
at Geneva.
Photo: © Ian Boyle, August 1985.
Helvétie (2)
at Geneva.
Photo: © Ian Boyle, August 1985.
Helvétie (2)
at Geneva.
Photo: © Ian Boyle, August 1985.
Helvétie (2)
at Geneva.
Photo: © Ian Boyle, August 1985.
Helvétie (2)
at Geneva.
Photo: © Ian Boyle, August 1985.
Helvétie (2)
at Geneva.
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 24th July 1986.
Helvétie (2)
at Geneva.
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 24th July 1986.
Helvétie (2)
and
Montreux
at Geneva.
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 24th July 1986.
Helvétie (2)
at Geneva.
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 24th July 1986.
Helvétie (2)
laid up at Lausanne-Ouchy.
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 26th July 2004.
Helvétie (2)
laid up at Lausanne-Ouchy.
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 26th July 2004.
Helvétie (2)
laid up at Lausanne-Ouchy.
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 26th July 2004.
Helvétie (2)
laid up at Lausanne-Ouchy.
The guy in blue swimming trunks in the water to the left, by the quayside, carried his dedication to ship photogrphy a little far, swimming out to photgraph the stern decoration from directly astern, all the time holding his camera above water.
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 26th July 2004.
The paddlebox of
Helvétie (2),
laid up at Lausanne-Ouchy.
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 26th July 2004.
Helvétie (2)
laid up at Lausanne-Ouchy.
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 31st July 2004.
Helvétie (2)
laid up at Lausanne-Ouchy.
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 31st July 2004.
Helvétie (2)
laid up at Lausanne-Ouchy.
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 31st July 2004.
Helvétie (2)
laid up at Lausanne-Ouchy.
Simplon
under repair on the right.
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 31st July 2004.
Helvétie (2), Simplon
and
Vevey
in the CGN yard at Lausanne-Ouchy.
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 31st July 2004.
Helvétie (2)
in the CGN yard at Lausanne-Ouchy.
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 4th August 2004.
Helvétie (2), Rhone
and
Simplon
in the CGN yard at Lausanne-Ouchy.
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 4th August 2004.
Helvétie (2)
laid up at the CGN yard, Lausanne-Ouchy.
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 24th July 2005.
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