Elisabeth (ship, 1858)
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The Elisabeth was a steamship that operated on the Traunsee for over a hundred years .
history
The paddle steamer Elisabeth was constructed from 1857 at the Ruston brothers' shipyard in Floridsdorf and assembled in Gmunden in 1858 . As the first ship of the line on the Traunsee, it had a steel hull.
In 1862 the ship and the steamer Sophie (II) passed from the property of the heirs of John Andrews to that of Joseph John Ruston , who at that time took over the Traunsee shipping . Ruston supplemented his steamer stocks by having the Sophie (III) built in Floridsdorf to replace her predecessor of the same name, and in 1872 commissioned Elisabeth's sister ship, the Gisela , which was seven meters longer than the Elisabeth . These ships were named after the daughters of the Austrian emperor.
The Gisela is still in operation.
Joseph John Ruston's nephew and heir, John Ruston, bought another steamship, the Marie Valerie , in 1895 .
When the Traunsee shipping was taken over by Rudolf Ippisch after the First World War , most of the steamships, which had meanwhile become vulnerable and unprofitable, were abolished. With the Elektra , Ippisch heralded the phase of electric ships on the Traunsee. Only the paddle steamers Elisabeth and Gisela remained in the fleet on the Traunsee during this time. The Elisabeth was completely overhauled in 1930/31 . She also survived the Second World War and remained in service on the Traunsee until autumn 1967. In 1970 it was canceled.
Footnotes
- ↑ The story of Elisabeth and numerous pictures at www.simplonpc.co.uk
- ↑ Data on Elisabeth and Gisela ( Memento from September 2, 2003 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Edmund Brandner, Kaiser und Kühe - everyone drove with it: 175 years of Traunsee shipping , on www.nachrichten.at, May 15, 2014
- ↑ Severin Schenner, 175 years of liner shipping on the Traunsee , in: Dampferzeitung 2, 2014