Radetzky (Steamship) (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Radetzky was an Austro-Hungarian passenger steamship built in 1851 in the shipyard in Obuda, Hungary, and used for regular services on the Danube, mainly between Or ova, Austria-Hungary and Gala i, Romania. Named after Bohemian nobleman and Austrian general Joseph Radetzky von Radetz (1766-1858), it is most notable as part of the history of Bulgaria as the ship which revolutionary and poet Hristo Botev and his band bloodlessly hijacked and used to reach Kozloduy, Bulgaria. On 29 May 1876, after the ship left the port of Bechet, the Bulgarian revolutionaries, who had boarded her from different ports disguised as gardeners, forced the captain Dagobert Englander to change course and transport the band to the Bulgarian port of Kozloduy, from where they would attempt to organize an anti-Ottoman uprising as a follow-up to the already crushed April Uprising of the same year.