Eduard (ship)
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The Eduard was a steamship that was built in 1843 as the first steamship ever to be built on the Upper Weser .
The ship sailed the Weser as a passenger steamship and remained in service until 1844.
It was made of wood from fir trees . Carl Anton Henschel rejected an iron building due to lack of time. The work of the carpenters took place in Hann. Münden instead. In Kassel it was equipped with machines. The test drive took place on the Fulda between Kassel and Spiekershausen . It should be named after Friedrich Wilhelm I , but since the designer Eduard Wüstenfeld did not get an audience with his sovereign, the ship was named after the designer. Almost the entire city population gathered for the first trip. As the second ship after the less successful voyage of the steamship Duke of Cambridge in 1819, it then sailed the Weser from Münden to Bremen and back.
As a result, the Oberweser Dampfschiffahrts Gesellschaft was able to set up regular traffic.
literature
- Hans Szymanski: The steam shipping in Lower Saxony and in the adjacent areas from 1817 to 1867 . 2011, p. 145 ( preview on Google Books )
Footnotes
- ^ Kurt Ewald: Henschel, Carl Anton. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 553 f. ( Digitized version ).