Vistula Navigation

[rcaf_777]

Something interesting I found

Vistula Navigation

The Vistula is navigable from the Baltic Sea to Bydgoszcz. The Vistula can accommodate modest river vessels of CEMT class II. Farther upstream the river depth lessens. Although a project was undertaken to increase the traffic-carrying capacity of the river upstream of Warsaw by building a number of locks in and around Kraków, this project was not extended further, so that navigability of the Vistula remains limited. The potential of the river would increase considerably if a restoration of the East-West connection via the Narew–Bug–Mukhovets–Pripyat–Dnieper waterways were considered. The shifting economic importance of parts of Europe may make this option more likely.

CEMT Class II Max Tonnage 650 Max Length 55.0 Meters Max Beam 6.60m

Wisla Krolowa Gross Tonnage 200 Ship’s Length: 35m Ship’s Beam 10m

[Silent Hunter UK]

Mind you, wouldn't you have problems with wrecks, debris etc. in T2K?

[StainlessSteelCynic]

If I remember right, one of the chief problems is sediment being washed down from upstream. It causes the formation of numerous temporary sandbars.

[Legbreaker]

And there is mention of wrecks and other problems, including the shifting of the course of the river by a kilometre or more at one point.

[StainlessSteelCynic]

It can get quite a flow going downstream at times so any waterborne debris can build up in short order - everything from the usual household rubbish to tree branches will happily float on the surface but even stuff under the water (e.g. the aforementioned sediment but also water-logged timber, old tyres and the like), can get pushed further down the river when there's a good current.
So you might not be facing just a wreck but also a pile of junk that's built up in front of the wreck, you'd have to treat any wrecked ship as being hazardous even before you've physically reached it.

[Legbreaker]

I've seen old car bodies and boulders shifted through fairly small creeks. Water is a strong and irresistible force for the most part. A couple of decent floods and the Vistula river is/will be unrecognisable without continuing maintenance.