The Goethe was built in 1913 at the shipyard of the Sachsenberg brothers at Köln-Deutz and was designed for a combination of goods and passenger transport.

Since then this half saloon half cargo ship was equipped with a two-cylinder compound superheated steam engine with valve timing gear, giving it a power potential of 700 hp and transferring that power to two paddle wheels with 8 iron paddles each. In 1925 the Goethe was extended into a double-decker saloon steamer.

On March 3, 1945, she was sunk by a bomb near Oberwinter and in 1951/52 she was rebuilt at the Ruthof shipyard in Mainz-Kastel. A new ship was built on the basis of the old one, but lengthened by 5 m to 83 m to give it a passenger capacity of 1600.

Her speed is 25 kph upstream and 16 kph downstream. As the only steam ship owned by KD (Köln-Düsseldorfer Deutsche Rheinschiffahrt AG)) the Goethe regularly plies back and forth on the 198 km Rhine route between Cologne and Mainz.

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