Friendship (ship, 1864)
 Paddle steamer friendship in front of the Albrechtsburg in Meißen
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The paddle steamer Friendship was built in 1864 in the Blasewitz shipyard. The ship was named John Penn with the hull number 9 on down Kiel . In 1941 the second ship was named Herrnskretschen and in 1949 the second ship was named Kurort Rathen . That same year it was renamed Friendship .
The time after commissioning until 1945
After commissioning as a smooth-deck steamer , the ship drove for the United Saxon-Bohemian Steamship , which was converted into the Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company (SBDG) in March 1867 . It had a bow and a stern rudder. Two boilers were used to generate steam. The ship had two chimneys one behind the other. The construction costs amounted to 13,607 thalers. It was used as a cargo ship on the route to Hamburg . It had a few cabins for passenger transport. On June 21, 1864, it made its first trip to Hamburg.
In order to avoid the access of the Kingdom of Prussia , the ship was moved to Theresienstadt during the Austro-Prussian War in May 1866 .
In 1868/69 the ship was rebuilt in the Otto Schlick shipyard . The bow and forecastle were rebuilt and the bow rudder removed. The renovation cost 3,392 thalers. Between 1868 and 1875 the ship was used as a tugboat.
In 1875/76 the ship was converted into a pure passenger steamer in the Blasewitz shipyard. The two existing boilers were removed and replaced by a three-flame tube suitcase boiler . A chimney became superfluous and expanded. The ship was lengthened by 5.80 m and widened 4 cm. The draft increased by 12 cm.
Until 1923 the ship drove for the Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company (SBDG). After the cessation of business operations, the ship sailed for the Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company (SBDA), which was newly founded in 1923 . The white painting of the ships, which was customary from 1926, earned it the name White Fleet . In 1889 the conversion to patent side gears took place. In 1899 a new three-flame tube suitcase boiler was installed by the Übigau shipyard of the Deutsche Elbschiffahrts-Gesellschaft, Ketten .
The starboard wave broke on June 26, 1907. The repair was carried out in the Laubegaster shipyard . On July 3, 1907, the ship started sailing again.
In the years 1919-1922 the ship was due to difficult economic conditions after the end of World War launched .
In the winter of 1926/27 the ship received electrical lighting. A steam control machine from the Deutsche Werke Kiel with construction no. 4150. In the winter of 1927/28 the ship was also painted white.
On July 25, 1929, due to the low water at Sebusein (Sebuzín), grounding occurred and the ship leaked.
In 1935/36 extensive renovation work was carried out, as there was a risk that the ship could break apart in the middle. In 1938/39 the wheel arches were removed.
On July 1, 1941, the ship was renamed in Herrnskretschen . In 1942 the ship was camouflaged and was parked in 1943. In 1944 it was converted into a kitchen ship for the Wehrmacht . In 1945 it sank in Pieschen harbor after a bomb hit .
The time after 1945
In summer 1945 it was lifted and towed with the Loschwitz to Loschwitz in the winter port of the SBDA . Here the ship sank in the winter of 1945/46 due to ice pressure. In the summer of 1946 it was lifted again and towed to the Laubegaster shipyard . In the next few years the ship was completely overhauled. It received an upper deck and larger windows in the hull. On April 15, 1949 it was put back into service under the new name Kurort Rathen and on June 8, 1949 it was declared a youth ship.
The SBDA was transferred to public ownership on February 1, 1947 and was given the name VEB Elbeschiffahrt Sachsen . From 1950 to 1957 it belonged to the VEB Deutsche Schiffahrts- und Umschlagszentrale (DSU). After its dissolution, the VEB Fahrgastschiffahrt und Reparaturwerft Dresden was established in 1957 and from 1967 the VEB Fahrgastschiffahrt Dresden .
On September 1, 1949, as part of an Elbe peace meeting in Herrnskretschen , delegations of young people from the Czechoslovak Republic met on the Podmokly and the GDR on the Rathen health resort . On October 1st, this meeting was repeated with trade unionists from the Czechoslovak Republic. For this purpose, the ship was renamed Friendship - Přátelství .
In 1952 it was used between August 3 and September 13 in the Magdeburg area, as the Elbe level in Dresden had dropped to 26 cm due to the drought.
In 1952/53 the boiler was removed, repaired in Übigau and reinstalled on June 20, 1953. The general overhaul of the steam engine takes place in 1954/55. On the occasion of a special trip for the pioneer organization Dresden together with the Meissen and Weltfrieden , the ship was put back into service on August 13, 1955. On September 12th the port outer crank broke in Heidenau . After the repair, the ship was back on the road. On May 6, 1958, the diesbar collided with the friendship at the Laubegaster shipyard . The wheel arch of friendship was damaged in the process. In 1958/59 the steam boiler had to be repaired again. After the expansion, it was repaired in Übigau and reinstalled on April 15, 1959. In September 1963 the ship was drafted for the “Quartet” maneuver . During this large-scale exercise of the NVA , Red Army , Polish People's Army and Czechoslovak Army (ČVA) carried out in the Dresden area from September 9 to 14, it served as a hospital ship. For this purpose, the salons were cleared out and equipped with hospital beds. With Russian doctors on board, the ship was stationed in the Dessau harbor. In 1963/64 minor repairs were carried out in the Bad Schandau shipyard in the Postelwitz district . At the end of October 1964, after 100 years of service, it was launched in Neustädter Hafen and retired. It was the company's first ship to reach that age. As a result, it was cannibalized as a spare parts donor. On July 19, 1966 it was towed to Aken with the motor tug Anklam and scrapped in the shipyard there . The steam engine was handed over to the Dresden Transport Museum. For reasons of space, the machine was scrapped in 1975.
The steam engine
The steam engine was a low-pressure, two-cylinder, twin, oscillating steam engine with injection condensation. It was built by the English mechanical engineering company John Penn and Sons . The power was 250 PSi. Two two-flame tube suitcase boilers with 2 atm steam pressure were installed.
In 1875 the two boilers were replaced by a three-flame tube suitcase boiler with 157.2 m² heating surface and 2 atm steam pressure from the Prague mechanical engineering company. Ruston & Co. replaced. In 1899 the boiler was replaced by a similar boiler in the chain, Deutsche Elbschiffahrts-Gesellschaft with construction no. 612 replaced.
Captains of the ship
- Clerk 1864
- Bieberstein 1865
- W.Ed. Hanke 1866-1867
- Wilhelm Edmund Hesse 1868–1890
- Carl Ferdinand Wolf 1891–1895
- Carl Baum 1896-1918
literature
- Historikerkreis Elbeschiffahrt Dresden, steam calendar, May 2015, passenger steamer friendship.
- Frank Müller, Wolfgang Quinger: With steam and paddle wheel on the Upper Elbe . transpress VEB Verlag for Transport, Berlin, 1988, ISBN 3-344-00286-4 .
- Hans Rindt: The "White Fleet" Dresden. From the history of the Upper Elbe passenger shipping . In: Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv 3 (= writings of the German Maritime Museum . Volume 12 ). Oceanum-Verlag, Wiefelstede 1980, ISBN 3-7979-1523-3 , p. 69–114, especially 84–86 ( online at the German Maritime Museum [PDF; 5.3 MB ]).
- Address and business manual of the royal capital and residence city of Dresden 1864 to 1884
- Shipping calendar for the Elbe area from 1885 to 1914
- Shipping calendar for the Elbe area and the Märkische Wasserstrassen from 1915 to 1918
Web links
- Passenger steamer friendship - data sheet
- Passenger steamer friendship - steam engine
- List of paddle steamers of the Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company
Individual evidence
- ↑ Winfried Schenk: Elbe level one meter below the mean - first restrictions for shipping , Menschen-in-dresden.de, April 24, 2014.