Austria (ship, 1893)
 Paddle steamer Austria in front of Scharfenberg Castle
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The paddle steamer Austria was built in the Blasewitz shipyard in 1893 . The ship was laid with hull number 33 on the keel . In 1919 the name was changed to Wittenberge .
history
The time until 1919
After commissioning as a smooth-deck steamer in May 1893, the ship sailed for the Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company (SBDG) until 1919 . After the Tetschen and the Leitmeritz , Austria also received electrical lighting during construction.
In 1919, due to difficult economic conditions at the end of the First World War , the ship was launched and sold on March 6, 1919 for 75,500 marks to the company Lauenburger Dampfschiffe Theodor and Hugo Basedow in Lauenburg .
The time after the sale
Before it was deployed, the ship was rebuilt at the Hitzler shipyard in Lauenburg . It received a steam steering engine and a small upper deck. It was used under the name Wittenberge on the Lauenburg– Hamburg and Lauenburg– Dömnitz routes . In 1953 it was retired. After the boiler and steam engine had been removed, it was to be towed to Sankt Peter-Ording and set up on the beach as a beach restaurant. Since this turned out to be impracticable, the ship was towed to Kiel and used here as a storage ship. In 1969 it was scrapped.
The steam engine
The steam engine was a low-pressure, two-cylinder, twin, oscillating steam engine with injection condensation. Like the two-flame tube suitcase boiler , it was built by the Saxon Steamship and Mechanical Engineering Institute of the Austrian Northwest Steamship Company in Dresden . The power was 110 PSi.
Captains of the ship
- Franz Rosche 1894–1895
- Carl Wilhelm Pfund 1896–1897
- Friedrich Franz Kunze 1898–1903
- Friedrich August Schaffrath 1904–1907
- Karl Gustav Hering 1908–1918
literature
- Hans Rindt: The Weisse Flotte Dresden . Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv 3, pp. 69–114.
- Shipping calendar for the Elbe area from 1894 to 1914
- Shipping calendar for the Elbe area and the Märkische Wasserstrassen from 1915 to 1920
