Prince Bismarck (ship, 1891–1967)
 Paddle steamer Fürst Bismarck in Söbrigen
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The paddle steamer Fürst Bismarck was built in the shipyard in Blasewitz in 1891 . The ship was laid with the hull number 28 on the keel . It was named after Otto von Bismarck . In 1919 the name was changed to Herrnskretschen , 1921 to Palacký , 1937 to Štěchovice , 1942 to Goldenkron , 1945 to Stalingrad and 1961 to Sněžník .
history
The time until 1921
After commissioning as a smooth deck steamer , the ship drove for the Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company (SBDG). On May 25, 1919, like all ships that bore the name of a monarch or a monarchy, it was renamed and named Herrnskretschen (after the town of Herrnskretschen ). In March 1921, the ship and the city of Wehlen were sold to the Prague steamship company PPS (Pražská paroplavební společnost) for 200,000 Czech crowns per ship . The ship was used here under the name Palacký . It was named after the Czech historian and politician František Palacký .
The time after the sale
The Palacký was used on the Prague - Mělník (Melnik) line. On January 1, 1937, the PPS was incorporated into the newly founded Československou plavební akciovou společností labskou (ČPSL). The Palacky underwent a general overhaul in the same year. In addition to the removal of the wheel arches, it also received a steam steering engine and the short chimney typical of Czech ships. Then it went back into service under the new name Štěchovice . After the occupation of the Czecho-Slovak Republic in March 1939 by German troops, the ČPSL was renamed the Böhmisch-Mährische Elbeschiffahrt AG (BMES). The names of the ships were retained for the time being. It was not until 1942, when Richard Tauche , the company's deputy general manager , that the ships were renamed. The Štěchovice got the name Goldenkron . In 1940 the ship received a new steam boiler and the steam engine was converted into a compound engine.
After the end of the Second World War , the ship was renamed Stalingrad in 1945 . On February 22, 1948, the PPS was nationalized and deleted from the commercial register in 1950. On January 1, 1949, the ČPSL was renamed Československá plavba Labská (ČSPL) and on July 1, 1952 in Československá plavba labsko-oderská (ČSPLO). In 1961, passenger shipping in Czechoslovakia was restructured. The Stalingrad in 1961 under the name Sněžník in Decin stationed on the route Usti - Herrnskretschen used. In 1964 the ship was decommissioned and scrapped in the port of Rosawitz (Rozbělesy).
The steam engine
The steam engine was an oscillating low-pressure two-cylinder twin steam engine with injection condensation with an output of 110 hp. Like the two-flame tube suitcase boiler, it was built by the Saxon Steamship and Mechanical Engineering Company of the Austrian Northwest Steamship Company in Dresden . In 1940 the machine was converted by ČKD (Českomoravská-Kolben-Daněk AG) into a compound machine with an output of 156 hp and the boiler installed in 1891 was replaced. The new steam boiler had a steam pressure of 14 bar .
Captains of the ship
- Carl Eduard Richter 1892-1896
- Friedrich August Müller 1897–1902
- Johannes Heinrich Horn 1903–1911
- Samuel Hermann Füssel 1912–1918
- Gustav Eduard Fischer 1919
- Karl Otto Vierig 1920
literature
- Hans Rindt: The Weisse Flotte Dresden . Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv 3, pp. 69–114.
- Miroslav Hubert, Michael Bor: Osobní lodě na Vltavě 1865 - 1985 . Transport and Communication Publishing House, Prague, 1985.
- Shipping calendar for the Elbe area from 1892 to 1914
- Shipping calendar for the Elbe area and the Märkische Wasserstrassen from 1915 to 1920
Web links
- Information about the ship accessed on December 18, 2015
- Shipping information accessed on December 18, 2015
- List of paddle steamers of the Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company