Nymphea
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| display title=ital }} {{Infobox ship image | Ship image = Nymphea 1.jpg | Ship caption = Nymphea }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header = | Ship country = France | Ship flag = 50px | Ship name = Nymphea | Ship owner = Leigh Wootton | Ship operator = Wootton, LTD | Ship route = River Cher in the Loire Valley: Nitray to Montrichard | Ship ordered = | Ship builder = | Ship yard number = | Ship way number = | Ship laid down = | Ship launched = 1921 | Ship completed = | Ship christened = Nymphea | Ship acquired = | Ship in service = | Ship out of service = | Ship registry = Vermenton | Ship fate = | Ship status = In service | Ship notes = | Website = {{url|http://www.loirebargecruise.com/}} }} {{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header = | Header caption = | Ship class = Commercial passenger vessel | Ship tonnage = 80 tons | Ship displacement = | Ship length = {{convert|24.5|m|ft|abbr=on}} | Ship beam = {{convert|4.20|m|ft|abbr=on}} | Ship height = {{convert|3.15|m|ft|abbr=on}} | Ship draught = {{convert|1.0|m|ft|abbr=on}} | Ship draft = | Ship depth = | Ship decks = 2 | Ship ice class = | Ship sail plan = | Ship power = 10kva Hawker Siddeley | Ship propulsion = DAF 615, 120 hp | Ship speed = Maximum 14 knots | Ship capacity = 6 passengers | Ship crew = 3 crew | Ship notes = }} |
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Nymphea is a classic Dutch style river barge with shallow draught. She was built in 1921 to carry cargo along the canals of Europe and presently serves as a hotel barge in France.
History
Nymphea originally carried barley and hops from Rotterdam to a brewery in the northern part of the Netherlands and would return with bottles and barrels of beer, making one round trip per week. The original owner had seven children and lived in the bow cabin with his wife, and at maximum, five of the children at a time. She barge was first converted in 1978 to carry 20 scouts in hammocks. She was then converted to a hotel barge in 1985. Nymphea has since traveled from the Netherlands to Bordeaux, on most of the French waterways. She was the first hotel barge on the southern Canal du Nivernais and the River Seille. She has also been to Barcelona and Monte Carlo by sea. She was moved in 1990 to the isolated River Cher on a trailer. In 2005, part of the Rick Stein's French Odyssey for the BBC was filmed on board.
External links
- [http://www.loirebargecruise.com/ Nymphea Website]
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