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The Viktoria is a 2003/04 built river cruise ship used by the Stuttgart tour operator Nicko Cruises on the Danube between Passau and Rousse in Romania.

History
Viktoria was the fifth built of a total of six almost identical river cruise ships, which was commissioned as a capital investment project by Premicon AG at the Nobiskrug shipyard in Rendsburg. The limited partnership capital amounted to around 8 million. Euro – the investment volume of investors was around 7 million. Euro. Bauwerft handed over the completed ship on 28. May 2004 in Amsterdam to the client after she had transferred it from Rendsburg via the North Sea. On June 2, the solemn baptism in the name of Viktoria took place in Bonn. Premicon Flussreisen GmbH registered the ship under ENI No. 04802960 with the home port of Cologne. The management was transferred on 1 January 2010 to KD Cruise Services Ltd. in Cyprus, a subsidiary of the Cologne-Düsseldorfer, at the same time the ship was registered in Valletta, Malta and received the ENI-NR. 09948008. Since the owner concluded a long-term charter contract with Phoenix Reisen for the ship from ship delivery, it was delivered in the typical white-turquoise color design. When the shipping company signed a contract with the river tour operator Nicko Tours starting in 2012, the ship received a white paint finish with blue and orange color applications.

Accident
On 13 April 2011, the Viktoria rammed on the power plant canal in Gabčíkovo, Slovakia, the corn-laden freight motor ship Bavaria 52 in the middle of the ship. As a result of the damage, the cargo ship sank, the Victoria was damaged on the bow. The crew of the freighter as well as passengers and personnel of the passenger ship were uninjured. After the Viktoria had received a new bug at the ÖSWAG shipyard in Linz, she was able to April will be reinstated.

Equipment

The Victoria is a 4-star 4-deck cabin ship with 90 double cabins of 16 m2 each. The cabins, which are separated from each other for noise insulation with double walls, are air-conditioned and are each equipped with radio, satellite TV, minibar, safe and telephone. The cabins of the main and upper deck have a French balcony, in the lower deck the windows cannot be opened for safety reasons. The decks were called terms from astronomy. The lower deck was named Neptundeck, the main deck is called the Saturn deck and the upper deck is called the Orion deck.

Behind the bow thruster chamber in the Neptundeck are 28 passenger cabins, which are followed by a staircase to the Saturn deck. In the rear ship are supply and storage rooms as well as the crew cabins. The Saturn deck has an open deck on the bow, which is used as a resting area by the guests of the wellness area behind. This is followed by 44 cabins, the Durc