Elektra (ship, 1910)

Elektra

Ship data flag  Austria Ship type Passenger ship home port Gmunden Owner Union Yacht Club Gmunden Shipyard Lürssen , Vegesack Launch 1910

Transport capacities Permitted number of passengers 21st

The Elektra is an electric powered passenger ship that is over a hundred years old.

history

The electrically powered Elektra , which went into operation in 1910, was the first watercraft with which Rudolf Ippisch took part in liner shipping on the Traunsee . It was the first electric passenger ship on the lake. A charging station for the ship's batteries was set up in Rindbach . Ippisch not only drove the relatively small Elektra to the large landing sites and thus quickly developed into a serious competitor for John Ruston, who had already used ships of the line on the Traunsee before Ippisch.

The Elektra was sold to the Union Yacht Club Gmunden in 1968.

See also

• List of electric boats

Footnotes

1. ↑ Renate Perfahl, Roots: From the history of the Salzkammergut , Denkmayr 2008, ISBN 978-3902598479 , p. 125
2. ↑ Severin Schenner, 175 years of liner shipping on the Traunsee , in: Dampferzeitung 2, 2014
3. ↑ History of Elektra on www.simplonpc.co.uk