Blasewitz (ship, 1888)
 Paddle steamer Blasewitz on the Elbe
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The paddle steamer Blasewitz was built in 1888 as the second ship with this name in the Blasewitz shipyard. The ship was laid down with hull number 24 . In 1902 the name was changed to Blaženec and in 1906 to Kaiser Friedrich .
The time until 1906
After commissioning as a smooth deck steamer , the ship drove for the Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company (SBDG). The ship, like the sister ship Loschwitz, deviated from the usual design of the ships used by the company. The lower deck had 13 large-format panoramic windows on each side in the fore and 14 in the aft. The ship was mainly used on the route between Dresden and Pillnitz Castle . The length of the ship was only 37 m. In 1896 the ship received a new boiler from the Saxon Steamship and Mechanical Engineering Company of the Austrian Northwest Steamship Company.
On December 31, 1902, the ship and its sister ship Loschwitz were leased to the Prague Vltava and Elbe steam shipping for a period of 6 years. The net price was 30,500 marks per ship, payable in 6 installments. The last installment was due on December 31, 1907. After the last installment had been paid, the ship was to become the property of the Prague company free of charge. The real rental price was 6,000 marks a year, per ship. The Prague company was given the right to put the Czech form of the ship's German name on the wheel arch above the original name. The ship's machinist was provided by the SBDG. The ship was used here from June 16, 1902 on the newly opened route from Prague-Karlin to Klecany . The Czech side ended the contract by not paying the installment on December 31, 1905.
In 1906 the ship was sold together with the Loschwitz for 55,195 marks to the Oberweser Steamship Company . On their behalf, the ship was overhauled at the Laubegaster shipyard. An upper deck was installed between the wheel arches and the ship received a steam steering engine . This was built by the Dresdner Maschinenbau und Schiffswerft Uebigau AG with the factory no. 1132. The transfer to Hameln led between Cuxhaven and Bremerhaven across the North Sea.
The time after the sale
From May 5, 1906, the ship was used in passenger shipping on the Oberweser under the name Kaiser Friedrich . From January 26, 1907, the ship sailed under the flag of the Oberweser-Dampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft FW Meyer Hameln (OWDG). In 1928/29 the ship was lengthened by 8.60 m. Both the fore and the aft were lengthened by 4.30 m each.
The Wehrmacht confiscated the ship in 1941 and used it as a supply ship on the Vistula in the Puławy area . It reached its place of use via the Mittelland Canal , Elbe-Havel Canal , Havel , Oder-Havel Canal , Oder , Warthe , Netze , Bromberger Canal , Brahe and Vistula. The distance covered to Pulawy is about 1250 km. In 1942 it was used as a hospital ship on the Dnepr and was in Kiev at Pentecost 1943 . The distance covered on rivers and canals from Warsaw via Brest , Pinsk , Mazyr and Chernobyl to Kiev is approx. 1,150 km. In 1944 the ship was again on the Vistula in the Puławy area. At the end of July 1944, heavily damaged after a collision and fire, it was parked in Danzig . Nothing is known about the further whereabouts.
The steam engine
The steam engine came from the Blasewitz built in 1876 . Both the steam engine and the boiler were built by the shipbuilding and mechanical engineering company Ruston & Co. in Prague. It was an oscillating high-pressure two-cylinder compound steam engine with an output of 80 hp.
Captains of the ship
- August Gottlieb Forkert 1889–1890
- Friedrich Eduard Kunze 1891-1892
- Friedrich Ernst Kleemann 1893
- Carl Otto Viehrig 1894–1897
- August Wilhelm Günther 1898
- Carl Otto Viehrig 1899–1902
See also
literature
- Hans Rindt: The Weisse Flotte Dresden . Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv 3, pp. 69–114.
- Shipping calendar for the Elbe area from 1889 to 1902
