Friedrich Wilhelm (ship)

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Friedrich Wilhelm
Friedrich Wilhelm 1827 copy.jpg
Ship data
flag Prussia KingdomKingdom of Prussia Prussia
Ship type Smooth deck steamer
Shipyard NSM shipyard, Nieuw-Lekkerland
Launch 1827
Commissioning May 26, 1827
Whereabouts In the 1840 Netherlands scrapped
Ship dimensions and crew
length
43.9 m ( Lüa )
width 5.0 m
Draft Max. 0.98 m
displacement 240  t
Machine system
machine 1-cylinder steam engine
Machine
performance 		70 hp (51 kW)

The Friedrich Wilhelm was after the Concordia , the second German steamship , and the first of the "Prussian Rhine Steamship Company" (PRDG), which later became Cologne Düsseldorf , commissioned ship in regular service on the Rhine was used.

Based on the positive experiences that had been made in September 1825 during the test voyage with the De Rijn , the “Steamship Company of the Rhine and Main” founded in 1825 decided to purchase two paddle steamers from the “Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij” (Dutch Steamship Company), which Concordia and Friedrich Wilhelm , in order to start the regular service between Mainz and Mannheim and Mainz and Frankfurt .

The Friedrich Wilhelm , a wooden paddle steamer, was built in 1827 according to plans by the NSM shipyard in Nieuw-Lekkerland . The ship was 43.90 m long, 5.00 m wide and had a displacement of 240 tons at a draft of 0.98 m. It was powered by a single-cylinder, low-pressure steam engine with an output of 70 hp. Like the Concordia, it was very luxuriously furnished and was decorated on the bow with a golden bust of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm .

The ship was commissioned on May 26, 1827. The first trip from Mainz to Holland took place on May 31st. On board was Queen Pauline of Württemberg , who was on a trip to London .

Since it turned out when the Concordia was delivered that its draft was too great for the voyage above Mainz, both the Concordia and the almost identical Friedrich Wilhelm were sent to the "Preußisch-Rheinische Dampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft" (PRDG ) in Cologne, which later became Cologne Düsseldorfer. They provided the regular service between Mainz and Cologne under their flag. The Concordia began this service on May 1, 1827, the Friedrich Wilhelm on July 1, 1827. The 200 km journey from Mainz to Cologne took about 10 hours. The return journey upstream took more than twice as long with a total travel time of 22 hours and 10 minutes: on the first day it was from Cologne to Koblenz , on the second day from Koblenz to Mainz.

Within a year the Friedrich Wilhelm carried 19,235 passengers and 52,635 quintals of goods.

The ship was sold to Holland in 1840 and broken up there.

literature

  • CE Heymann, "Concordia", first steamer of the Prussian-Rhenish Steamship Company in Cologne, 1826 (Contributions to Rhine Studies, Issue 6) Publisher Rhein-Museum Koblenz, 1930
  • Horst Zimmermann, From the history of the passenger shipping companies on the Rhine. (Contributions to Rhine Studies, Issue 31), published by Rhein-Museum Koblenz, 1979
  • Georg Fischbach: The ships of the KD (a detailed list on over 1000 pages with many historical and current photos of all ships of the KD from 1826 to 2005). Publisher: Self-published, available from KD Cologne.
  • Hans Rindt, The ships of the Cologne-Düsseldorfer then and now , publisher Gunter Dexheimer

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ On June 3, 1823, the Dutch shipping company van Vollenhoven, Dutilh & Comp. from Rotterdam started a scheduled steamship service for people and goods between Rotterdam and Antwerp . In October 1823 she moved her ship De Zeeuw to the profitable Rotterdam- Nijmegen route and on November 11, 1823, transformed the company into a joint stock company under the name “Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij”.