The Archduke Johann was originally the British steamer Acadia , which sailed for the Cunard Line . She was sent as a mail steamer on an Atlantic voyage. Her maiden voyage was on August 4, 1840, from Liverpool via Halifax to Boston . It had facilities for 115 first class passengers. In January 1849, after 33 Atlantic tours, she was sold to the Imperial Fleet .
After purchasing the ship together with the Britannia , she arrived in Bremerhaven on March 25, 1849, a few days late . Being on the way from Liverpool to Terschelling stranded, they had to go into dry dock of Brake are brought to fix the damage. The renovation and repair work, in the course of which it after John of Austria in Archduke Johann was renamed, lasted until 1851. The original Barktakelage was on Schonerbriggtakelung changed and the transom rebuilt to prepare a gun for round stern. Like her sister ship Barbarossa , she was also given a figurehead . Since the ship could no longer be completed for war purposes, it served the rest of its time in the fleet as a training ship for the training of cabin boys.
On March 20, 1853, the Archduke Johann wheel frigate was auctioned in Bremerhaven . The shipping company Fritze & Co. in Bremen was awarded the contract . The ship was converted back into a passenger ship and used in Atlantic traffic. With the new name Germania , she made four more Atlantic tours from Bremerhaven (the first and the second outward journey under Captain Wilhelm Bremer, all further journeys up to the sale to England under Captain HAF Neynaber) as the second Bremer steamer on this line. During the Crimean War , Germania drove in a British charter as a troop transport. Germania was (besides Hansa ) one of the only two wooden overseas steamers under the German flag, equipped with single-cylinder side-lever steam engines in the low-pressure range specially built for paddle steamers. The ship was scrapped in Greenwich in 1857 .
literature
Arenhold, Lüder: 50 years ago! The German Reichsflotte 1848-1852 in twelve pictures , Berlin 1906, reprint with an introduction by Uwe Greve Berlin 1995.
Gröner, Erich / Dieter Jung / Martin Maass: The German warships 1815-1945 . tape1 : Armored ships, ships of the line, battleships, aircraft carriers, cruisers, gunboats . Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-7637-4800-8 , p.66 .
Hubatsch, Walther (ed.): The first German fleet 1848–1853 , Herford / Bonn 1981.
Arnold Kludas : The warships of the German Confederation 1848 to 1852 . In: Hubatsch, The First German Fleet , pp. 51–60.
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