Bavaria (ship, 1912)

Bavaria

Ship data flag  Germany Ship type Passenger ship home port 1912-1946 Lindau , BY Owner 1952–1959 Deutsche Bundesbahn 1948–1952 General Directorate of the Southwest German Railways 1920–1945 Deutsche Reichsbahn 1912–1919 Royal Bavarian State Railways Shipyard Maschinenfabrik JA Maffei , Munich Launch 1912 Whereabouts Scrapped in 1961

Ship dimensions and crew length 58.25 m ( Lüa ) width 13.69 m Draft Max. 1.48 m displacement 312 t after conversion

Machine system machine Steam engine : Inclined 2-cylinder superheated steam compound machine (Maffei) Machine performance 590 hp (434 kW) Top speed 14.6 kn (27 km / h) propeller 2 side wheels with 8 iron blades

Transport capacities Permitted number of passengers 750 after renovation

The steamship Bavaria was a German passenger ship that was in service on Lake Constance from 1912 to 1959 .

history

The Bavaria (the name is the Latinized name for Bavaria ) was the successor to the original smooth-deck steamer Bavaria (1869-1912) . Like the three new buildings before, it was commissioned by the Royal Bavarian State Railways from the Munich machine factory JA Maffei . It largely corresponded to the seven years older half saloon steamship Lindau .

The inclined 2-cylinder superheated steam compound machine had an indicated normal output of 590 PS (434 kW) at a speed of 48 / min with a potential of up to 920 PS (677 kW) (indicated) at 59 / min. During the maiden voyage, the route from the island of Mainau to Lindau could be covered at a previously unattained speed of 30.2 km / h.

The salons were designed by the Nuremberg Art Nouveau architect Heinrich Höllfritsch. This last Bavarian Lake Constance steamship was put into service in the home port of Lindau in 1912 and taken over by the Deutsche Reichsbahn after the First World War in 1920 .

Based on the model of the Lindau , the Bavaria was converted into a two-deck saloon steamship in 1932, increasing the capacity to 750 passengers. Although it was on the pile in the shipyard in April 1945 , it was successful in a night-and-fog operation on 25/26. April to water them and to haul them from the Bludenz steamship to Switzerland for protective internment in Rorschach . The execution of a Nazi order was thwarted to sink nine ships stationed in Lindau and Bregenz before the French armed forces marched in. After the repair, the Bavaria was used in the 1950s by the Deutsche Bundesbahn in regular service on the Obersee until the last trip in September 1958. On April 1st, 1958, the Bavaria and Lindau were taken out of service together, replaced by motor ships and scrapped in Constance in 1961 . Only the ship's bell , the rudder and steering system and the three-ton cast crankshaft remained as exhibits in the Nuremberg Transport Museum .

See also

• Internment of German Lake Constance ships in Switzerland in 1945
• White fleet
• List of ground sea steamships

literature

• Dietmar Bönke: paddle wheel and impeller. The shipping of the railway on Lake Constance. GeraMond Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-86245-714-4 .
• Hans-Georg Brunner-Schwer, Karl F. Fritz: The history of the great Lake Constance ships. Bodensee Magazin Verlag, Konstanz undated , ISBN 3-935169-00-0 .
• Karl F. Fritz: Adventure steamship. MultiMediaVerlag, Meersburg 1990, ISBN 3-927-484-00-8 .
• Klaus von Rudloff, Claude Jeanmaire: Shipping on Lake Constance. Volume 2: The heyday of steam shipping. Villigen (CH) 1981. ISBN 3-85649-071-X

Web links

• History, images and technical data of Bavaria on bodenseeschifffahrt.de

Footnotes

1. ^ Karl F. Fritz: "Bavaria" was the fastest steamship in Central Europe for almost a year. From bodenseeschifffahrt.de , accessed on August 12, 2013.
2. ↑ Dietmar Bönke: paddle wheel and impeller. The shipping of the railway on Lake Constance. GeraMond, Munich 2013. p. 71.
3. ^ Badische Zeitung of November 23, 1960