S/S Tippa

Story

Tippa is a steamship built in Sweden, which for a long time served as a tugboat for Repola-Viipuri Oy and later Rauma-Repola Osakeyhtiö. The exact year and shipyard of the ship are not known because the ship’s papers were destroyed in a fire in the shipyard in the 1970s. The company bought a ship called the Repola 3, which had been forcibly handed over to the army and sunk during the withdrawal phase.

In professional traffic, S / S Tippa towed chip barges from Joensuu and the Kukkapää sawmill to Joutseno. After the end of professional traffic, the vessel was transferred to private ownership in 1973 and it still operates as a pleasure boat in Saimaa.