Carolina (ship, 1818)
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The Carolina or La Carolina was the first steamship to sail between Trieste and Venice , both of which were part of the Austrian Empire at the time . It was probably named after Empress Karoline Auguste of Bavaria , the fourth wife of Emperor Franz I.
history
Francis I wanted to promote the use of steamships in the Kingdom of Lombardy-Veneto and offered a 15-year sole license and tax breaks. On December 21, 1817, the American consul and merchant John Allen of Philadelphia received this license. He had a ship built with a wooden hull in the Panfilli shipyard and equipped with a two-cylinder steam engine from James Cook from Glasgow . On December 4, 1818, he made a first test and then the ship began regular traffic between Trieste and Venice.
On October 22, 1819, the Englishman William Morgan became a partner in the ship. In 1820 the Carolina was demolished and the steam engine installed in another ship called the Carolina .
Web links
- NAVI DEL LLOYD DI TRIESTE (with picture of Carolina )
literature
- Christian Karl André (Ed.): Hesperus: encyclopedic magazine for educated readers. , 1826, p. 997 ( online )