Steinhuder pike
The Steinhuder Hecht was a draft submitted in 1762 by the engineer, officer and military school teacher Jakob Chrysostomus Praetorius from Schaumburg-Lippe for a mail ship between the Weser and Lisbon. It is considered the first German draft of a submarine .
The design envisaged an oak wood construction in the shape of a fish. It was to be equipped with sails, but above all to be propelled by a tail fin moving inside the ship. Praetorius wanted to build the ship for a quick mail connection to Lisbon, and he also suggested a North Pole expedition. Count Wilhelm zu Schaumburg-Lippe (1762 as military commander in Portugal) did not have the design carried out. The two draft drawings are now kept in the NLA - Staatsarchiv Bückeburg . In the ship lists of the Wilhelmstein , however, it can be proven that Praetorius later built a small variant of the ship: a falconet ship, which is called "the fish" or "the Praetorius ship" in the lists. In the literature there is a report that this boat was successfully dived.
Today a model and construction plans of the Steinhuder Pike are exhibited in the military museum on the Wilhelmstein .
literature
- Curd Ochwadt , The invention is not a fleeting thought , in: Schaumburg-Lippische Heimatblätter 21 (1970), No. 3.
- Curd Ochwadt, Das Steinhuder Meer: a collection of news and descriptions up to 1900 , Hanover 1967 (Schaumburger Heimathefte 13), pp. 140–154.
- Timm Weski, Hippopotame` and `Schaumburgische` or` Steinhuder Hecht`: an amphibious craft and a submarine from the second half of the eighteenth century , in: The Mariner`s Mirror 88, 2002, H. 3, pp. 271-284 .
Web links
- steinhuder-meer.de Retrieved on February 17, 2012
Individual evidence
- ^ Curdt Ochwadt, Das Steinhuder Meer: a collection of messages and descriptions up to 1900 , Hannover 1967, p. 149