Bohemia (ship, 1841)
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The paddle steamer Bohemia was built in the Karolinenthal shipyard in Prague in 1841 .
The time until 1851
In August 1840, construction of the wooden ship began in the John Andrews shipyard in the Karolinenthal suburb of Prague. It was built on behalf of the KK priv. Elbe-Dampfschiffahrt, which was specially founded by John Andrews . The construction was directed by Joseph John Ruston with the assistance of the KK shipmaster Adalbert Lanna. Both the steam engine and the steam boiler were supplied by John Penn and Sons . The launch planned for the end of February 1841 was postponed several times and took place on May 1, 1841. This resulted in an accident. A worker was "rolled over" by the ship lying between the slide rails. He was lucky and got away with minor injuries. After a few sea trials, the ship sailed on May 23, 1841 to Obříství, south of Mělník, on the Elbe . On May 26, 1841, the departure for Dresden was here at 7 a.m. , which was reached at 9:30 p.m. Due to the low water level of the Elbe, the return trip took place on June 9, 1841. From then on, the ship drove the Obříství - Dresden route and back twice a week between May and November. Since the Vltava was not yet navigable, Obříství was the end point. From here the passengers were driven to Prague by carriages.
The Bohemia reached a speed of 4.9 knots upstream and 11.3 knots downstream. From the summer of 1845 until the end of 1848, the subsidiary KK priv. Dampfschiffahrt organized the trips of the Bohemia from Dresden to Prague. The company was based in Dresden.
The time after the sale
John Ruston, who took over the shipping company after the death of John Andrews, saw competition in the Dresden – Prague railway, which opened on April 6, 1851, and saw no future for passenger shipping on the Elbe. For this reason, on February 3, 1851, in addition to the Bohemia, he also sold the other two ships Constitution and Germania including the shipping license for 25,000 thalers to the United Saxon-Bohemian Steamship . In 1853 the middle wave of the Bohemia broke . A shaft piece supplied by Krupp from Essen was installed as a replacement . In 1856 the wooden ship was scrapped.
The steam engine
The machine was an oscillating low-pressure two-cylinder twin steam engine with injection condensation with an output of 110 hp. Like the three-flame tube suitcase boiler , it was built by the English mechanical engineering company John Penn and Sons . The whereabouts of the machine is unknown. It was probably used as a spare parts dispenser. The middle shaft piece with the inscription Krupp bei Essen, cast steel, 10 years guarantee, 1853 , which is built into the diesel bar's steam engine today , is traced back to the Bohemia machine .
Captains of the ship
- Anton Stolz 1855
- C. Hering 1856
Note
The date of retirement is unclear. In the years 1857–1862 a ship Bohemia is listed in the crew lists . The Bohemia II was not put into service until 1863. There is still a need for research here.
literature
- Hans Rindt: The Weisse Flotte Dresden . Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv 3, pp. 69–114.
- Heinz Trost: traditional paddle steamer Diesbar . Lauenburg booklets on the history of inland navigation, Lauenburg 2nd edition 1990
- Address and business manual of the royal capital and residence city of Dresden 1855 to 1860
Individual evidence
- ^ The Vltava steamboat Bohemia . In: Wiener Zeitung . No. 124 , May 5, 1841, pp. 917 ( digital at ANNO , Austrian National Library).
- ↑ Austrian steam shipping . In: Oesterreichischer Beobachter . No. 155 , June 4, 1841, p. 612 ( digital at ANNO, Austrian National Library).