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Tuesday 11 December 2018

Whereabouts of Hungarian inland tug Liget unknown according to a list dated 2 August 1921

After the First World War (1914-1918) lost by the German, Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires was Walker D. Hines appointed as international arbitrator responsible for the ceding of tugs and other inland vessels by Germany, Bulgaria, Austria and Hungary to the Allied Powers. For Austria respectively Hungary were the Treaties of St. Germain and Trianon leading. Lists were made of the involved vessels including some details and what their fate was to be.

A list dated Paris, France 2 August 1921 reported that the Hungarian inland D. Szekcso tug Liget with a horsepower of 40 hp was missing but that neither France, Romania or the Serb-Croat-Slovene Kingdom claimed to have seized her.

Source
Reports of International Arbitral Awards. Navigation on the Danube, 2 August 1921, volume 1. UN, 2006.