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River cruise ship allided with suspension bridge

In the late foremidday of June 1, 2016 the "Amadeus Silver" allided with the suspension bridge in Passau on the Danube. The sunsail on the upper deck touched the bottom of the bridge, also parts of the railings were damaged. The police estimated the damage to be around 5000 Euro. The ship moored at berth 1 in Passau after the accident, and the passengers went ashore while the crew repaired the damage, before the voyage could be continued towards Vilshofen at 4.20 p.m. German report with photo: http://www.pnp.de/region_und_lokal/stadt_und_landkreis_passau/passau_stadt/2093702_Fritz-Schaeffer-Promenade-gesperrt-Schiffsunfall.html

River cruise ship allided with bridge

On July 19, 2013, at 1.30 p.m. the "Amadeus Silver" enroute from Budapest to Amsterdam allided with the Kostheim lock on the Main, losing part of ist wheelhouse. There were no passengers on board as they had disembarkend in Frankfurt before. One of the Romanian helmsmen raised the wheelhouse again, after it had been already lowered to pass underneath a bridge across the lock, as he had forgotten some documents which would not have been accessible otherwise. Then he left the ship for formalities. The second helmsman from the Ukraine who navigated the ship had not noticed this, so that the wheelhouse crashed against the bridge. The roof was torn off and parts of the wheelhouse broke off. The ship was moored underneath the lock after the accident, where works started to construct a temporary wheelhouse so that the ship might proceed to a Yard for permanent repairs. The damage caused at the lock was about 20.000 Euro.