Defiance (ship, 1815)

Defiance

Defiance steamship

Ship data flag  United Kingdom  Netherlands other ship names Prince of Orange ( Prince of Orange ) Ship type Paddle steamer Shipyard Aggs and Curr, Norwich Launch 1815

Ship dimensions and crew length 22.25 m ( Lüa ) width 3.66 m Draft Max. 0.91 m displacement 50  t

Machine system machine Steam engine Machine performance 12 HP (9 kW) propeller 2 paddle wheels

The Defiance was the third steamship to sail on the Thames between London and Margate and was the first to sail on the Rhine .

history

The Defiance was powered by a 2-cylinder steam engine. The cylinders had a diameter of 25.4 cm and performed a stroke of 91 cm. The machine was supplied with steam through a cylindrical kettle.

In October 1815 the ship was used as a parcel ship between London and Margate. In 1816 the Defiance was sold to operate in the Kingdom of the United Netherlands . The British naval officer William Wager transferred the ship via the island of Walcheren to Rotterdam in May 1816 and was received there by King William I and renamed the Prince of Orange . The steamboat sailed the Rhine all year round and docked in Cologne on June 12, 1816 . Originally it was planned that the Defiance should go to Frankfurt am Main . However, the strong current above Cologne prevented this and the ship had to turn back. At the end of 1816 the ship was brought to England for repairs, but there were disagreements between the operator and the Netherlands and the Defiance did not return and remained unused in England for several years.

Web links

• The Early History of the Steamship at victorianweb.org
• AN INTERESTING SNIPPET OF THE EARLY STEAMBOATS at margatehandbook.co.uk
• THE FIRST STEAMBOAT SERVICES IN EUROPE at artistaswitness.com
• First steamship in Kripp

literature

• Lohn Kennedy: The history of steam navigation , Liverpool 1903 ( online )
• Wolfgang Klee, Detlev Luckmann: Steam Ships on the Rhine , 2010, ISBN 978-3-937189-51-2
• Negotiations of the Association for the Promotion of Industry in Prussia , 3rd year, Berlin 1824, p. 179 ( online )

Footnotes

1. ^ The Mechanics' Magazine and Journal of Engineering, Agricultural Machinery, Manufactures, and Shipbuilding , Volume 7, London 1862, p. 22 ( online )
2. ↑ Schiffer and ferries at schifferverein-beuel.de ( Memento of the original from May 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ^ Heinrich von Förster, Emil von Förster : Allgemeine Bauzeitung , Vienna 1866, p. 144 ( online )