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the paddle steamer has been taken out of service for further repairs | August 2011 |
 Following her withdrawal from service, the
paddle steamer spent the remainder of summer 2011 moored on "death's row" - the outer harbour
wall at Lausanne-Ouchy where so many of her older sisters spent their final days before being scrapped
- alongside sister MPV Italie (also awaiting
re-building) | Her afternoon sailing to the Upper lake was covered by a motor vessel and a modified version of her Evening Dinner Cruise was operated by Hopefully work to restore her to service in 2012 will be completed over the winter of 2011-12 Photo: Margaret Smith - click on picture to enlarge 8th June 2011 |
After a private charter on Wednesday 8th June is was
discovered her new superheater had failed thus causing in a complete boiler failure - ironically
replacement parts which had only just been installed by the CGN the previous winter | The paddle steamer was taken out of service two days later for repairs As it turned out, this was her final sailing of 2011 It was very fortunate the late decision was taken to return her sister PS Rhône to service in 2011 after all, so she was available to cover her first timetabled sailings on Sunday 12th June and some of her many planned charters 5th June 2011 |
First public sailing of the
season | Took part in the annual pre-season naval parade off-Rolle on Sunday 5th June | 29th August 2010 |
Last sailings of the Season | Operated Upper Lake timetabled 204-205 followed by the evening dinner cruise from Lausanne to Rolle on Sunday 29th August Peak Summer 2010 |
Peak-Summer timetabled
sailings | During the summer of 2010, operated the 1415 sailing from lausanne to the Upper Lake followed by the curtailed timetabled evening dinner cruise from Lausanne to Rolle and return commencing Sunday 4th July 20th June 2010 |
Made a rare public visit to Geveva by operating
sailings 100-101 from Lausanne
on Sunday 20th June vice
mv Chablais
which broke down earlier in the month and had to be permamently withdrawn from
service | 16th May 2010 |
First public sailing of the
season | Took part in the annual pre-season naval parade off-Morges on Sunday 24th May | 6th September 2009 |
Last sailings of
2009 | Operated the timetabled evening dinner cruise from Lausanne to Yvoire on and Sunday 6th September Peak Summer 2009 |
Peak-Summer timetabled
sailings | During the summer of 2009, the paddle steamer only operated the timetabled evening dinner cruise from Lausanne to Yvoire and return commencing Sunday 28th June 24th May 2009 |
First public sailing of the
season | Took part in the annual pre-season naval parade off Rolle on Sunday 24th May | 14th September 2008 |
Last sailings of
2008 | Operated six 45 minute non-landing cruises from Lausanne-Ouchy on Sunday 14th September in connection with the "open day" at Ouchy works where progress of the major re-build of her sister The last day in service was considerably earlier than recent years as the 'traditional' Montreux Christmas Market Lunch Cruises will not operate this year Peak Summer 2008 |
Peak-Summer timetabled
sailings | The paddle steamer operated timetabled sailings 1204-1205-204-205-405-406 between Sunday 29th June and Sunday 7th September 25th May 2008 |
First public sailing of the
season | Took part in the annual pre-season naval parade off Vevey on Sunday 25th May | 16th December 2007 |
Last sailings of
2007 | Operated the 'traditional' Montreux Christmas Market Lunch Cruises at 1200 from Lausanne on Sundays 16th and 23rd December 26th August 2007 |
Broke down at Ouchy dock on
Sunday 26th August and her
sailings 711-712-1201-1202-211-403-404 were covered by
| July and August 2007 |
Peak-Summer timetabled
sailings | The paddle steamer operated timetabled sailings 711-712-1201-1202-211-403-404 between Sunday 1st July and Sunday 9th September 20th May 2007 |
First public sailings of the
season | Took part in the annual pre-season naval parade off Morges on Sunday 20th May | 10th December 2006 |
 Last sailings of
2006 | Operated the 'traditional' Montreux Christmas Market Lunch Cruise on Sunday 10th December at 1200 from Lausanne and again on the following Sunday before retiring to Ouchy dock 9th September 2006 |
 Journées européennes du
Patrimoine | Operated three two-hour cruises from Lausanne to Vevey on Saturday 9th September and again on Sunday 10th September On the Sunday alone the paddle steamer carried 2092 passengers ! See also special photo feature July and August 2006 |
Peak-Summer timetabled
sailings | The paddle steamer operated timetabled sailings 711-712-1201-1202-211-403-404 between Sunday 2nd July and Sunday 3rd September 21st May 2006 |
First public sailings of the
season | Took part in the annual pre-season naval parade off Rolle on Sunday 21st May | 11th and 18th December 2005 |
Last sailings of
2005 | Operated two special Montreux Christmas Market Lunch Cruises from Lausanne depart 1200 on Sundays 11th and 18th December 7th September 2005 |
Broke down at Ouchy dock on
Wednesday 7th
September during her Late Summer Charter period | Basically her charters and the special sailings for the next few days including the Journées du patrimoine special sailings were covered by July and August 2005 |
Peak-Summer timetabled
sailings | The paddle steamer is operating timetabled sailings 309-310-901-53-54 between Saturday 2nd July and Sunday 4th September 15th May 2005 |
Took part in the annual pre-season
naval parade off Morges on Whit
Sunday 15th May | 14th May 2005 |
First public sailings of the
season | Operated six special one hour cruises from Morges for just SF5 on Whit Saturday 14th May | 18th December 2004 |
 5th December 2004 |
Last sailings of
2004 | Operated three special Montreux Christmas Market Lunch Cruises from Lausanne depart 1200 including a short afternoon non-landing "mini-cruise" from Montreux depart 1410 on Sunday 5th December and again on the following two Sundays note - the earlier departure of the mini-cruise compared with last year was to enable the paddle steamer to clear the pier for the new timetabled sailing 39 by 11th September 2004 |
Europäischer Tag des Denkmals - Saturday
11th September | In connection with the above and the CGN Ouchy works open day, the paddle steamer operated seven 30 minute non-landing cruises from Lausanne on Saturday 11th September - depart 1000, 1100, 1200, 1300, 1400, 1500 and 1600 This arrangement was repeated the following day (Sunday 12th September) 29th August 2004 |
Last timetabled sailings of the
season | The paddle steamer operated timetabled sailings 309-310-201-53-54 on Sunday 29th August 30th May 2004 |
 As part of her 100th birthday celebrations the
paddle steamer operated a special public
lunch
cruise on Whit Sunday 30th May
departing Vevey at 1145 and Montreux at 1220 | 9th May 2004 |
First public sailing of the
season | Took part in the annual pre-season naval parade on Sunday 9th May 2004 |
100 years old in 2004 | The paddle steamer mainly operated private charter sailings for most of the year, except for the period between Sunday 27th June and Sunday 29th August when she was be rostered to timetabled sailings 309-310-201-53-54 | 21st December 2003 |
Last sailings of
2003 | Operated the last of three Sunday special Montreux Christmas Market Brunch Cruises from Lausanne also a short non-landing "mini-cruise" from Montreux on Sunday 21st December 7th December 2003 |
Operated the first of three Sunday special
Montreux Christmas Market
Brunch Cruises from Lausanne also a short non-landing
"mini-cruise" from Montreux on Sunday 7th
December - see photo feature | 10th August 2003 |
Broke down at Morges whilst operating
sailing 173 on
Sunday 10th
August | Following repairs at the pier, the paddle steamer returned non-stop to Lausanne at approximately 2130 (roughly in the path of sailing 218) See news page for further details 29th June 2003 |
The paddle steamer operated timetabled
sailings
65-76-195-173-218 on Sunday 29th June
and continued every day until Sunday 31st
August | 29th May |
to 3rd June 2003 "G8
Summit" at Evian-les-Bains | Operated special ferry sailings from Lausanne for VIPs attending the conference 11th May 2003 |
 First public sailing of the
season | Took part in the five paddle steamer pre-season 130 years of the CGN naval parade on Sunday 11th May departing Lausanne at 1200 2003 |
The paddle-steamer mainly operated
private charter sailings from 22nd February to the end of the
year | | 22nd December 2002 |
Laat sailing of the season | Operated the third Sunday Christmas Market Brunch Cruise from Lausanne on Sunday 22nd December 8th December 2002 |
Operated the first of three Sunday
Christmas Market Brunch Cruises from Lausanne on
Sunday 8th December | This was the first time the new steam engine was controlled directly from the bridge in public service, without the need for an engineer 1st September 2002 |
Last timetabled sailings
of the season | Operated the regular Lausanned based sailings 65-76-95-173-218 on Sunday 1st September 11th July 2002 |
Broke down off Rolle whilst operating
sailing 218 with
generator problems on Thursday
11th July and passengers were transferred to
| See news page for further details 30th June 2002 |
The paddle steamer returned
to daily timetabled service on Sunday 30th
June for the peak-season | 21st/22nd June 2002 |
First timetabled sailings
of the season | The paddle steamer UNUSUALLY operated the Weekend Late Night Ferry Service between Lausanne and Evian-les-Bains on the nights of Friday/Saturday 21st/22nd June and Saturday/Sunday 22nd/23rd June 12th May 2002 |
First public sailing of the
season | The paddle steamer took part in the six paddle-steamer pre-season publicity parade on Sunday 12 May 2002 |
The paddle steamer mainly operated private
charter sailings until 6th January and again from 11th March
to 22nd December | | 1st December 2001 |
Last public sailing of the
season | Operated a special evening Scottish Whisky Dinner cruise from Geneva at 2100 on Saturday 1st December 23rd November 2001 |
Operated a special public evening Scottish Whisky
Dinner cruise from Lausanne at 2100 on Friday
23rd November | Autumn and |
Winter 2001 The paddle steamer had a large number of private
charter sailings | 31st August 2001 |
Last advertised timetabled sailings of the
season on Friday 31st August -- 1820 evening
cruise Lausanne to Yvoire and 2010 return | 1st July 2001 |
First timetabled sailing of 2001 on
Sunday 1st July - 1230
lunch cruise from Lausanne to Evian-les-Bains and 1315 return | 29th June 2001 |
Operated two special short free cruises for
the public from Geneva (at 1010 and 1055) and together with a 1215 lunch cruise in between the
special sailing from Lausanne which shareholders to the AGM on
Friday 29th June | 20th May 2001 |
Operated six special short free cruises for
the public from Lausanne (at 0910, 0955 and 1040) and from Montreux (at 1610, 1700 and 1750)
on Sunday 20th May | 19th May 2001 |
Operated her maiden voyage as
PS Montreux for invited guests only on
Saturday 19th May comemorated by a
naval parade
with the other four paddle
steamers - see photo feature | This followed the major re-build during the previous two and a half years which included the installation of a new steam engine and boiler to replace the | Autumn 1998 |
Withdrawn from service for major re-build, including | 4th October 1998 |
 Final sailing of
MPV Montreux | On Sunday 4th October operated sailings 33-50-64-155 - ending up with the 1500 St-Gingolph to Lausanne Click here for official CGN poster Summer 1998 |
Normally operated the "2 day roster" alternating
with | day one - 1015 Lausanne to Geneva via day two - 1030 Geneva to Lausanne via | Summer 1983 |
Normally operated the
"2 day roster" alternating
with | day one - 0930 Lausanne to Geneva followed by 1430 Geneva to Yvoire and return day two - 1045 Geneva to Lausanne via | | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
15th September 2011
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