Friedrich Franz IV. (Ship)
 Paddle wheel ferry Friedrich Franz IV.,
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The Friedrich Franz IV. Was a German railway ferry with a paddle wheel drive. The steamship ran from 1903 to 1926 on the Warnemünde – Gedser line .
history
On December 9, 1900, Denmark and Mecklenburg agreed to set up a ferry across the Baltic Sea between Warnemünde and Gedser (48 km) as well as the construction of ferry boats and piers. The Friedrich Franz IV. And the Mecklenburg were commissioned by the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg General Railway Directorate of the Friedrich-Franz Railway from the F. Schichau shipyard in Elbing . The Friedrich Franz IV. Was the first of the large ferries to be launched. In contrast to the two-track screw ferry Mecklenburg , it was a single-track paddle wheel ferry and was supposed to transport passenger cars in the summer. The Danish State Railways use the sister ship of Friedrich Franz IV , the Prinsesse Alexandrine , also built near Schichau , with the same tasks. In addition to the three ferries built at Schichau, the fourth ship used by DSB was the Prins Christian , built at Helsingør Jernskibs- og Maskinbyggeri , which was similar to the Mecklenburg and ultimately had the longest period of service, as it was still used as a reserve ship on the successor route from Großenbrode-Gedser .
The commissioning of Friedrich Franz IV took place at the opening ceremony of the Trajektroute on September 30, 1903.
Technical specifications
The length of the ship of the ship built at Schichau in Elbing under construction number 697 was 85.3 meters, the width 18.75 meters and the draft 3.65 meters. The ship was measured at 1402 GRT when it was commissioned . The steam engine , powered by four boilers, had an output of 2140 PSi and enabled a speed of 13.8 knots. Initially, a 79.5 m track was available for passenger coaches.
In the winter of 1905/1906, the Friedrich Franz IV. Was extended and rebuilt to double tracks like her Danish sister ship in the previous year. After the renovation at the Neptun shipyard in Rostock , the ferry was measured at 1733 GRT, was 103.78 m long and had a track length of 152 m. The exhaust system was also changed and the number of chimneys reduced from four in a rectangle to two in a row.
commitment
Until the outbreak of the First World War , the Friedrich Franz IV was reliably in service with the Mecklenburg and the two Danish ferries. At the start of the war, regular traffic was canceled for the time being.
The German ferries were used in military service and served on various routes between German ports to transport troops. The Danish ferries were initially withdrawn to Copenhagen. After consultation with the warring parties, the two Danish ferries, marked with a large Danish flag painted on them and the inscription "Danmark" on the ship's side, were used again on the main route in 1914. During the war, a quarantine station was set up at Hook Hagen, west of Gedser, because of possible epidemics.
The Mecklenburg ferries were already being used again at the end of 1918, when Allied prisoners of war from northern and eastern Germany were partly returned to their homeland via Denmark and Sweden. In 1920 the newly created Deutsche Reichsbahn took over Friedrich Franz IV and Mecklenburg .
In November 1922, the DSB replaced its paddle wheel ferry with the new ferry Danmark . In 1926, the new Schwerin ferry for the Deutsche Reichsbahn replaced Friedrich Franz IV. , Which was demolished that same year.
literature
- Alfred Dudszus, Alfred Köpcke: The big book of ship types. Steam ships, motor ships, marine technology from the beginnings of machine-driven ships to the present day. transpress Pietsch, Berlin Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-344-00374-7 , pp. 202-203.
Web links
- 100 years of Rostock-Gedser
- Railway ferries (PDF; 366 kB)
- Gedser Remise Railway Museum
- Model shipyard
- Four chimney ships