Blasewitz (ship, 1876)
Paddle steamer Blasewitz at the Blasewitz pier
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The paddle steamer Blasewitz was built in 1876 in the Karolinenthal shipyard in Prague by the shipbuilding and mechanical engineering company Ruston & Co.
history
The ship was designed as a tugboat with a screw drive. After the order was canceled by the client, there was no buyer. The Sächsisch-Böhmische Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft (SBDG) bought the half-finished ship at the shipyard and had it converted into a side wheel steamer.
On May 9, 1876 the ship arrived in Dresden from Prague. It was put into service as a smooth-deck steamer and used on the Dresden - Blasewitz route. The construction of the ship, built as a screw steamer, did not prove itself in use. In 1881, the 24.80 meter long ship was lengthened by 10 meters at the Blasewitz shipyard and a continuous main deck was installed. The conversion did not improve the driving behavior. In the autumn of 1888, the ship was therefore decommissioned and scrapped.
The steam engine
The steam engine was an oscillating, high-pressure, two-cylinder composite steam engine with injection condensation. The power was 80 PSi . Like the single-flame tube cylinder boiler, it was built by the Prague shipbuilding and mechanical engineering company Ruston & Co. The steam pressure of the boiler was 5 bar. After the ship was scrapped, the Blasewitz (II) built in 1888 received a steam engine and boiler.
Captains of the ship
- Gustav Theodor Röhrig 1877
- Friedrich August Hanke 1878–1887
- Friedrich Franz Kunze 1888
literature
- Hans Rindt: The "White Fleet" Dresden. From the history of the Upper Elbe passenger shipping. Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv 3 (= Writings of the German Shipping Museum , Volume 12), Oceanum-Verlag, Wiefelstede 1980, ISBN 3-7979-1523-3 , 1980, pp. 69–114, especially p. 88 ( online as PDF ; 5.1 MB).
- 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 .
- Address and business manual of the royal capital and residence city of Dresden 1877 to 1884
- Shipping calendar for the Elbe area from 1885 to 1888