Friedrich August (ship, 1855)

Friedrich August

Paddle steamer Friedrich August on the Brühl Terrace

Ship data flag  Saxony Ship type Paddle steamer home port Dresden Owner Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company Shipyard Schiffbauplatz cribs Launch 1855 Commissioning 1855 Whereabouts cancellation

Ship dimensions and crew length 48.86 m ( Lüa ) width 4.75 m

Machine system machine Flame tube suitcase boiler, 2-cylinder twin machine, brown coal consumption approx. 420 kg / h Machine performance 120 hp (88 kW) Top speed upstream: approx. 10.3 km / h downstream: approx. 15.9 km / h propeller 2 side wheels

Transport capacities Permitted number of passengers maximum 500

The paddle steamer Friedrich August was in the shipbuilding place in 1854 cribs to put Kiel . It was built here from parts. The manufacturer of the ship parts was the shipbuilding company WU Pearce in Ludwigshafen / Rh . It was named after King Friedrich August II of Saxony .

The time until 1890

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 . The iron ship had a wooden ship floor. This was renewed in 1871.

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 the winter of 1876/77 the ship underwent a major overhaul. In the winter of 1880/81 the machine was completely overhauled.

In autumn 1890 the Friedrich August was shut down and scrapped in the Blasewitz shipyard .

The steam engine

The steam engine came from Friedrich August I , built in 1846 by the Buckau machine factory in Magdeburg . It was an oscillating low-pressure two-cylinder twin steam engine with injection condensation from Buckauer Maschinenfabrik with an output of 120 hp. The fire tube suitcase boiler also came from this company. The Königstein (III), built in 1891, received parts of the steam engine .

Captains of the ship

• Carl Gottlieb Gretzschel 1855
• FA Petzold 1856-1858
• Carl August Lehmann 1859–1861
• Friedrich Wilhelm Tobias 1862–1865
• Carl August Kunze 1866–1879
• Ignaz Hora 1880
• Carl August Richter 1881–1883
• Friedrich August Streidt 1884–1885
• Carl Friedrich Hering 1886–1887
• Carl Ferdinand Wolf 1888
• Friedrich Franz Kunze 1889–1890

literature

• Hans Rindt: The Weisse Flotte Dresden . Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv 3, pp. 69–114.
• Address and business manual of the royal capital and residence city of Dresden 1855 to 1884
• Shipping calendar for the Elbe area from 1885 to 1890

Web links

Commons : Friedrich August (ship, 1855)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• List of paddle steamers of the Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company