Germania (ship, 1846)
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The paddle steamer Germania was built in 1846 on the Obříství shipbuilding site by the Edward Thomas engineering company.
The time until 1851
In the autumn of 1845 the construction of the wooden ship began by the Edward Thomas mechanical engineering factory in Obříství south of Mělník . It was built on behalf of the KK priv. Elbe-Dampfschiffahrt owned by John Andrews . The construction was directed by Joseph John Ruston . Both the steam engine and the steam boiler were supplied by the John Penn and Sons company. The launch planned for the end of March 1846 was postponed several times and took place in May 1846. After a few test drives, the ship was used from June 18, 1846 on the route between Obříství, located on the Elbe , and Dresden . From then on, the ship drove the Obříství - Dresden route and back twice a week between May and November. Since the Vltava , which flows into Mělník, was not yet navigable, Obříství was the end point. From here the passengers were driven to Prague by carriages.
On July 26th, 1846 there was a serious accident at Großpriesen . The downstream Germania rammed the upstream Prince Albert . While the Germania received only minor damage to the bow, a side wheel and the kitchen of the Prinz Albert were destroyed. On July 20, 1850, Archduchess Sophie of Austria and Princess Amalie of Saxony traveled from Vienna with the Germania from Obříství to Pillnitz .
The Germania reached a top speed of 10.1 knots .
The time after the sale
John Ruston, who took over the shipping company after the death of John Andrews, saw competition in the Dresden – Prague railway, which opened on April 6, 1851, and saw no future for passenger shipping on the Elbe. For this reason, on February 3, 1851, in addition to the Germania, he also sold the other two ships Constitution and Bohemia including the shipping license for 25,000 thalers to the United Saxon-Bohemian Steamship . In the fall of 1857 the wooden ship was broken up.
The steam engine
The machine was an oscillating low-pressure two-cylinder twin steam engine with injection condensation with an output of 110 hp. Like the three-flame tube suitcase boiler , it was built by the English mechanical engineering company John Penn and Sons . The whereabouts of the machine is unknown.
Captains of the ship
- Wilhelm Gaube 1855
- Carl Protze 1856-1857
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 1857
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Journal Echo . A steamboat accident. In: The humorist . No. 187 , August 6, 1846, p. 755 ( digital at ANNO , Austrian National Library).
- ↑ Germany . Pillnitz. In: Wiener Zeitung . No. 175 , July 25, 1850, p. 2244 ( digital at ANNO, Austrian National Library).