Franz Josef (ship, 1855)

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Ship data
flag Kingdom of SaxonyKingdom of Saxony Saxony
Ship type Paddle steamer
home port Dresden
Owner Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company
Shipyard Shipyard Ruston & Co. Karolinenthal Prague
Launch 1855
Commissioning 1855
Whereabouts cancellation
Ship dimensions and crew
length
46.33 m ( Lüa )
width 4.77 m
Draft Max. empty 0.45 m
Machine system
machine 3-flame tube suitcase boiler
2-cylinder twin machine
Machine
performance 		110 hp (81 kW)
propeller 2 side wheels ⌀ 3.93 m

The paddle steamer Franz Josef was built in 1855 in the Karolinenthal shipyard in Prague by the shipbuilding and mechanical engineering company Ruston & Co. It was named after Franz Joseph I , Emperor of Austria.

The time until 1880

After the ship was transferred to Dresden by Joseph John Ruston , it was put into service here as a smooth deck steamer and sailed for the United Saxon-Bohemian Steamship , which was converted into the Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company (SBDG) in March 1867 . In 1858 the medium wave broke. The new medium shaft was supplied by the Saxon Cast Steel Institute in Döhlen , was in use for 110 years and has been preserved in a museum. The iron ship had a wooden ship floor. This, like the deck, was renewed in the winter of 1867/68.

In order to remove the access of the Kingdom of Prussia , the ship was moved to Theresienstadt in May 1866 during the Austro-Prussian War .

In 1867 the ship was not in service. It was kept in reserve.

In autumn 1880 the ship was decommissioned and scrapped in the Blasewitz shipyard .

The steam engine

The machine was an oscillating low-pressure two-cylinder twin steam engine with injection condensation with an output of 110 hp. It was built by the Moabit mechanical engineering institute. The three-flame tube suitcase boiler comes from the shipbuilding and mechanical engineering company Ruston & Co. After the ship was dismantled, the Kaiser Franz Josef , built in 1880, received the boiler and the engine.

Captains of the ship

  • Wilhelm Gaube 1856–1857
  • W. Döppe 1858-1865
  • August Hermann Froede 1866
  • Carl Gottlieb Gretzschel 1867
  • Wenzel Franz Hora 1868–1872
  • Ignaz Hora 1873-1879
  • Carl August Helm 1880

literature

  • Hans Rindt: The "White Fleet" Dresden. From the history of the Upper Elbe passenger shipping. Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv 3, 1980, pp. 69–114, especially pp. 80, 90 ( online as PDF ; 5.1 MB).
  • Address and business manual of the royal capital and residence city of Dresden 1855 to 1880

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