Concordia (ship, 1827)

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Concordia
Concordia 1.dt.Rheindampfer.jpg
Ship data
flag Prussia KingdomKingdom of Prussia Prussia
Ship type Smooth deck steamer
Shipping company Prussian-Rhenish Steamship Company
Launch 1827
Ship dimensions and crew
length
42.7 m ( Lüa )
width 4.88 m
displacement 240  t
Machine system
machine 1 steam engine
Machine
performance 		70 hp (51 kW)
propeller 2 paddle wheels ∅ 3.76 m
Transport capacities
Load capacity 60 tdw
Permitted number of passengers 230

The Concordia was the first German steamship on the Rhine . The regular service on the Rhine began with her journey from Düsseldorf to Cologne on May 1, 1827 .

Technical specifications

The Concordia was 42.70 meters long, 4.88 meters wide and had a displacement of 240 tons. It could carry up to 230 passengers and almost 60 tons (1,173 quintals) of freight. In addition to passengers and general cargo , horses and coaches were also transported. The drive consisted of an English single-cylinder low-pressure steam engine with 70 hp at 30 / min. The machine had a flywheel to maintain the smoothness of the gait. She stood on one side of the ship, the steam boiler on the other. The paddle wheels had a diameter of 3.76 m.

history

The Mainz “Steamship Company of the Rhine and Main”, founded in 1825, had ordered two ships from the “Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij” (Dutch Steamship Company) for traffic between Mainz and Mannheim and Mainz and Frankfurt . When the first of the two, the Concordia , was delivered in 1827, it was found that its draft was too great for the voyage above Mainz. The ship was therefore sold to the "Preußisch-Rheinische Dampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft" (PRDG) in Cologne founded on June 11, 1826, which later became Cologne Düsseldorfer . With the Concordia and the Friedrich Wilhelm , built in 1827 and commissioned on May 26, 1827 as the second ship of the PRDG , the regular service between Mainz and Cologne was started. The 200 km long journey from Mainz to Cologne took around 10 hours, much faster than with the stagecoach . The return journey upstream took more than twice as long with a total travel time of 22 hours and 10 minutes: on the first day it was from Cologne to Koblenz , on the second day from Koblenz to Mainz. The furnishings and fittings of the ship were considered magnificent and comfortable. “You can't think of anything more elegant and comfortable than this steamship,” wrote the poet and writer Friedrich von Matthisson on board the Concordia in 1827 .

One year after the Concordia's first voyage , a travel guide by historian Prof. JA Klein was published in Koblenz with the title Rheinreise from Mainz to Cöln, a manual for fast travelers on the Rhine . A French translation followed a year later. This manual, the revision of which became the first Baedeker in 1835 , contained two views of the Concordia .

literature

  • CE Heymann: “Concordia”, the first steamer of the Prussian-Rhenish Steamship Company in Cologne . 1826 (Contributions to Rhine Studies, No. 6) Publisher Rhein-Museum Koblenz, 1930.
  • Horst Zimmermann: From the history of the passenger shipping companies on the Rhine . (Contributions to Rhine Studies, Issue 31), published by Rhein-Museum Koblenz, 1979.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ On June 3, 1823, the Dutch shipping company van Vollenhoven, Dutilh & Comp. from Rotterdam started a scheduled steamship service for people and goods between Rotterdam and Antwerp . In October 1823 she moved her ship De Zeeuw to the profitable Rotterdam- Nijmegen route and on November 11, 1823, transformed the company into a public limited company under the name “Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij” (NSM).
  2. ↑ History and technology of ships, especially paddle steamers. Archived from the original on June 14, 2008 ; accessed on January 4, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Reiseleben, Issue 12/1986: Alex W. Hinrichsen: The first 35 years of passenger steam shipping .