The royal Ernst August
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The Royal Ernst August (ex Cora , later Edinburgh ) was a wooden paddle steamer in the style of a corvette of the imperial fleet of the German Confederation .
Technical specifications
The wooden corvette with paddle steamer was built at the William Patterson shipyard in Bristol / England on behalf of the Imperial Fleet. The launch under the code name Cora was in the course of 1848, an exact date is not known. The construction costs were 150,000 thalers .
The ship, displacing 580 t, was 55.47 m in length and 49.21 m in the waterline. The greatest width of the hull was 9.72 m, over the wheel arches 17.1 m. The maximum draft was 3.96 m. The ship was powered by two horizontally mounted, oscillating single-cylinder steam engines from the London company Miller Ravenshill, which set the two side paddle wheels in motion. The engines made around 950 PSi and accelerated the ship to 9 knots . The two wheels each had twelve blades and a diameter of 5.79 m. The steam supply was ensured by three suitcase boilers , which generated around 1 atm steam pressure and were housed together with the steam engines in a 16.15 m long machine room. To fire the boilers, Der Königliche Ernst August carried a coal supply of 200 tons. In addition, the ship had rigging . The two-master was rigged as a schooner brig. The armament consisted of six 68-pounder bomb cannons . The crew was 150 men strong and consisted of five officers and 145 non-commissioned officers and men .
The Grand Duke of Oldenburg and Frankfurt were similar in type, but smaller .
use
After its completion in Bristol, it ran under the British flag and the code name Cora Bremerhaven , where it was put into service in October 1848 as Der Königliche Ernst August . It was named after the Federal Prince King Ernst August I of Hanover (1771–1851).
According to Lüder Arenhold, the Radkorvette was "a very pretty model" and, according to various contemporary sources, the most beautiful ship in the fleet. Allegedly it reached a speed of "almost eleven knots" during the test drive . On December 12, 1852, the ship in Brake was auctioned by the Oldenburg State Councilor Laurenz Hannibal Fischer and acquired by the General Steam Navigation Company , Ltd., in London .
In March 1853 she was used as Edinburgh in European traffic. In March 1855 the ship was lost in Varna , Bulgaria or the Ottoman Empire , under unknown circumstances. Presumably at that time she served as a transport ship for the Allies during the Crimean War . At that time, Varna was the logistical center for the Allied troops.
literature
- Gröner, Erich / Dieter Jung / Martin Maass: The German warships 1815-1945 . tape 1 : Armored ships, ships of the line, battleships, aircraft carriers, cruisers, gunboats . Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-7637-4800-8 , p. 108 .
- Arnold Kludas : The ships of the German Reichsflotte . In: Walther Hubatsch : The first German fleet 1848-1854 . Mittler, Herford et al. 1981, ISBN 3-8132-0124-4 , ( German Marine Academy and German Marine Institute series 1), pp. 51-60.
- Arenhold, Lüder: The German Reichsflotte 1848-1852 . Reimer, Berlin 1906, (Reprint: Newly published by Uwe Greve with two color pictures from Neuruppiner picture sheets. DBM-Media-Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-930541-07-6 ).