Bad Schandau (ship, 1892)
 Paddle steamer Schandau in front of the Albrechtsburg in Meissen
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The paddle steamer Bad Schandau was built in 1891 in the Blasewitz shipyard. The ship was named Schandau with the hull number 30 to set keel . It was the second ship with that name. In 1928 it was named Bad Schandau .
The time after commissioning until 1945
After commissioning as a smooth deck steamer in 1892, the ship sailed for the Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company (SBDG) until 1923 . After the cessation of business operations, the ship sailed for the Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company (SBDA), which was newly founded in 1923 . The white painting of the ships, which was customary from 1926, earned it the name White Fleet . In addition to the machinery, the ship had also received the paddle wheels of Koenig Johann , who was retired in 1891 . In the winter of 1926/27, the ship received a steam steering engine from Deutsche Werke Kiel , a wheelhouse and electrical lighting. In 1927/28 an upper deck was built, the wheel arches were removed to make space for the installation of toilets and a steam heater was installed. It was now also painted white. After Schandau had received the title "Bad" in 1920, the ship was also put back into service after the renovation under the name Bad Schandau .
In the summer of 1943, the Bad Schandau, like all steamers, was given a camouflage finish. During the Second World War , the ship was rented by the German Reich without a crew and was moored in Dessau's Leopoldshafen as an office ship for the Junkers works .
The time after 1945
In 1946 the ship got under way again.
The SBDA was transferred to public ownership on February 1, 1947 and was given the name VEB Elbeschiffahrt Sachsen . From 1950 to 1957 it belonged to the VEB Deutsche Schiffahrts- und Umschlagszentrale (DSU). After its dissolution, the VEB Fahrgastschiffahrt und Reparaturwerft Dresden was established in 1957 and from 1967 the VEB Fahrgastschiffahrt Dresden .
In 1959 the cylinder boiler , which was still made by Koenig Johann , had to be replaced. The "White Fleet" bought for this purpose the two cylinders of the boiler 1959 Radschleppers decommissioned Scholls by the VEB German Binnenreederei Berlin . While one of the boilers was installed in the Bad Schandau , the other boiler was intended for the Riesa . The boiler too large for the machine produced too much steam. This repeatedly escaped noisily via the pressure relief valve and thus earned the ship the name "Kocher".
In 1965/66 the ship and engine were overhauled in the Laubegast shipyard .
In the 1975 season the ship was leased to the ČSPL Děčín for 40 days . The ship was used here on the Tetschen - Herrnskretschen route .
The excessively large boiler and the increased machine performance with its installation led to cracks in the machine foundation and in the machine frame. As a result, the ship had to be taken out of service in 1976. It was placed in the Neustädter Hafen in Dresden to obtain spare parts . On December 11, 1979, it was delivered to the shipyard in Aken and from January 28, 1980 it was scrapped. The steam control machine was handed over to the Dresden Transport Museum.
The steam engine
The steam engine was an oscillating, high-pressure, two-cylinder composite steam engine with injection condensation. The power was 125 PSi . Like the two-flame tube cylinder boiler with 5 bar steam pressure , it was built in 1874 by the Swiss engineering company Escher Wyss & Co. in Zurich for Koenig Johann (II) . The boiler and machine were installed in the Schandau after an overhaul . With the installation of the used boiler with 6.5 bar steam pressure in the winter of 1959/60, the performance of the machine was increased to 135 PSi.
When the steam engine was scrapped, the oldest oscillating compound engine in the fleet was lost.
Captains of the ship
- Carl August Richter 1893–1898
- Emil Leberecht Kunze 1899–1902
- Josef Hübel 1903–1913
- Oswin Julius Fritsche 1914–1920
literature
- Hans Rindt: The Weisse Flotte Dresden . Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv 3, pages 69–114
- Frank Müller, Wolfgang Quinger: With steam and paddle wheel on the Upper Elbe . transpress VEB Verlag for Transport, Berlin, 1988, ISBN 3-344-00286-4 .
- Shipping calendar for the Elbe area from 1893 to 1914
- Shipping calendar for the Elbe area and the Märkische Wasserstrassen from 1915 to 1920
