Frankfurt (ship, 1848)

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Wheeled corvette FRANKFURT of the Reichsflotte around 1850
Frankfurt p1
Ship data
flag German ConfederationGerman Confederation (war flag) German Confederation United Kingdom
United KingdomUnited Kingdom (trade flag) 
other ship names
  • Cazique
  • Holland
Ship type Paddle steamer
Shipyard William Patterson, Bristol
building-costs 110,000 thalers
Launch 1848
Whereabouts Wrecked in December 1878
Ship dimensions and crew
length
51.02 m ( Lüa )
44.71 m ( KWL )
width 8.16 m
over wheel arches: 14.4 m
Draft Max. 2.74 m
displacement 448  t
 
crew 100 men
Machine system
machine 2 suitcase boiler
2 1-cyl steam engines
1 Rowing
Machine
performance
700 hp (515 kW)
Top
speed
8 kn (15 km / h)
propeller 2 paddle wheels ∅ 5.49 m
Rigging and rigging
Rigging Schoonerbrigg
Number of masts 2
Armament

The Frankfurt (ex Cazique , later Holland ) was a wooden paddle steamer in the style of a corvette of the fleet of the German Confederation .

Technical specifications

The client to the shipyard William Patterson in Bristol / England was the imperial fleet . The launch took place under the cover name Cazique in the course of 1848. An exact date is not known.

The ship, displacing 448 t, was 51.02 m long over all. Above the wheel arches , the ship was 14.4 m wide, the hull was up to 8.16 m wide. The maximum draft was 2.74 m. The Frankfurt was powered by two horizontal, oscillating single-cylinder steam engines with around 700  PSi . These acted on two side paddle wheels with twelve paddles and a diameter of 5.49 m. For the steam supply, the ship had two suitcase boilers that generated around 1  atm steam pressure . Steam engines and boilers were housed in a common, 12.81 m long engine room. The Frankfurt reached a top speed of around 8  knots . The fuel supply of 130 t of coal carried along enabled the ship to travel 1,600 nm at this speed  . The paddle steamer also had a schooner rig rigging . Two 68-pounder bomb cannons were on board as armament . The crew was 100 men strong and consisted of four officers and 96 NCOs and men .

use

After its completion in Bristol, the Cazique was transferred to Geestemünde , today part of Bremerhaven . In the arsenal of the Seezeugmeisterei there, the guns were installed and the ship was put into service as Frankfurt .

The Frankfurt was auctioned on December 12, 1852 in Brake (Unterweser) by the Oldenburg State Councilor Laurenz Hannibal Fischer together with other units of the Reichsflotte and acquired by the General Steam Navigation Company , Ltd., in London . In March 1853, Frankfurt, now renamed Holland , was registered in London and used in European cargo shipping. On February 1, 1860, the Holland collided on the Thames near Deptford with the steamer Gertrude from Leith and sank, but was lifted again and repaired. In the spring of 1876 the Holland was launched and in 1878 transferred to Messr. Castle Sons sold for scrapping.

See also

The Grand Duke of Oldenburg was similar in type . The Royal Ernst August was similar, but larger .

literature

  • Arenhold, Lüder: The German Reichsflotte 1848-1852 . Reimer, Berlin 1906, (Reprint: Newly published by Uwe Greve with two color pictures from Neuruppiner picture sheets. DBM-Media-Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-930541-07-6 ).
  • Gröner, Erich / Dieter Jung / Martin Maass: The German warships 1815-1945 . tape 1 : Armored ships, ships of the line, battleships, aircraft carriers, cruisers, gunboats . Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-7637-4800-8 , p. 108 f .
  • Arnold Kludas : The ships of the German Reichsflotte . In: Walther Hubatsch : The first German fleet 1848–1854 . Mittler, Herford u. a. 1981, ISBN 3-8132-0124-4 , ( German Marine Academy and German Marine Institute series 1), pp. 51–60.

Individual evidence

  1. a b Gröner, Erich: The German warships 1815-1945. Vol. 1, p. 108 f.