Gallia (ship, 1913)

Gallia

Ship data flag  Switzerland Ship type Paddle steamer home port Lucerne Shipping company Shipping company of Lake Lucerne Shipyard Escher-Wyss, Zurich Launch June 2, 1913

Ship dimensions and crew length 62.85 m ( Lüa ) width 7.2 m over wheel arches: 14.5 m Side height 2.8 m Draft Max. 1.53 m displacement 339  t   crew 8 (as of 1974), now 6 men

Machine system machine 2-cylinder compound machine Machine performance 1,080 PS (794 kW) Top speed 17.0 kn (31 km / h) propeller 2 paddle wheels

Transport capacities Permitted number of passengers 900

The Gallia is a paddle wheel steamer on Lake Lucerne in Switzerland . It is operated by the shipping company of Lake Lucerne and is considered the fastest paddle steamer on European inland lakes.

history

The Gallia and the city of Lucerne on the occasion of an actor Steamer race 2004

The steamship company of the Lake Lucerne at that time (DGV) ordered the saloon steamship from Escher-Wyss in Zurich in 1912 . The launch took place on June 2nd, 1913, on the 19th the first test drives were carried out and on July 10th the scheduled use could be started. It is the last, largest and fastest steamship that was delivered by Escher-Wyss for Lake Lucerne.

The ship's salon is designed in the style of the New Empire and still has its original furniture. The large windows were an innovation for the steamers on Lake Lucerne.

With the naming of the Gallia one joined a series of older Lake Lucerne steamers with country names: Helvetia , Germania and Italia ; in the meantime, the Gallia is the only "Länderschiff" on the lake, apart from the motor ship Europa, which is named "connecting peoples" with reference to this tradition . Bugzier of Gallia is the Gallic rooster and the bow mast leads the flag of France .

A plan from 1920 to convert the ship from two to three decks was not implemented. The Gallia would have been extended at the same time and would have received a third steam boiler with an additional chimney. In 1952/53 it was converted from coal to heavy oil firing . Major overhauls were carried out in 1936/37, 1945, 1969 and from 1977 to 1979. On the occasion of a complete renovation from 2001 to 2004, a new steam boiler was installed.

Like the other four active Lake Lucerne steamers Uri , Unterwalden , Schiller and City of Lucerne , the Gallia was classified as a cultural asset of national importance (category A).

commitment

The Gallia reaches a high speed of 31.5 km / h . This has always made it suitable for courses with tight travel times, although it was used rather cautiously until the conversion to heavy oil firing. As of the end of the 2008 season, she had covered 1,187,319 km.

The documentary Lopper by Arnold Odermatt and Urs Odermatt shows the Gallia in 1961 as it crosses the Acheregg lake on Lopper near Stansstad with the historic Acheregg swing bridge open.

literature

• Erich Liechti and others: Shipping on Lake Lucerne. History and register of ships. Verlag Eisenbahn, Villigen 1974, ISBN 3-85649-021-3 .
• Josef Gwerder: Steamship Gallia. Logbook. Odermatt, Dallenwil 2004, ISBN 3-907596-12-4 .

Web links

Commons : Gallia  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Steamer friends Lake Lucerne: Gallia. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 27, 2013 ; Retrieved May 22, 2011 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Erich Liechti et al.: Shipping on Lake Lucerne. History and register of ships. Verlag Eisenbahn, Villigen 1974, ISBN 3-85649-021-3 , pp. 62-63.
3. ↑ Shipping company of Lake Lucerne: Gallia. (PDF; 194 kB) (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved May 10, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
4. ↑ Kurt Hunziker, Heinz Amstad: Vierwaldstättersee - our fleet . Ed .: Shipping company of the Vierwaldstättersee. Dampferzeitung, Luzern 2001, ISBN 3-9522296-0-1 , p. 18 .
5. ↑ Shipping company of Lake Lucerne: Europe. (PDF; 178 kB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 3, 2013 ; Retrieved May 10, 2009 . 
6. ↑ A – Objects LU 2018 . Swiss inventory of cultural assets of national importance. In: babs.admin.ch / kulturgueterschutz.ch. Federal Office for Civil Protection FOCP - Department of Cultural Property Protection, January 1, 2018, accessed on December 26, 2017 (PDF; 88 kB, 14 pages, updated annually, no changes for 2018).
7. ↑ Steamship friends Lake Lucerne: Technical data of the "Gallia". (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 23, 2015 ; Retrieved May 10, 2009 .