Griffin (ship, 1877)
 The Greif in Constance around 1895
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The Greif was the first semi-saloon steamer to operate on Lake Constance . In 1932 the ship ran aground due to an inappropriately placed tobacco can.
history
In 1877 the Greif was built by the Sulzer brothers on behalf of the Baden State Railways. The 191,000 Reichsmark expensive ship was designed from the outset as a half saloon steamer, in contrast to the Christoph from Württemberg . That is, half of the viewing salon was integrated into the ship's hull. This construction offered less resistance to the wind than the full saloon steamers that were common on other waters at the time and therefore quickly became the standard for passenger ships on Lake Constance: After the Greif , 23 more half saloon steamers were built for Lake Constance traffic by 1913. The nave of the Greif was closed at the front in 1885 and the steamer received a wheelhouse. The gaff mast that still existed around 1895 was later dismantled. In the late afternoon of December 19, 1932, the Greif ran aground with about 20 passengers on board on the way from Überlingen to Unteruhldingen in the Mauracher Bay near Seefelden . The captain immediately ordered the boat to reverse at full power, but the ship was so firmly on the ground that it could not free itself on its own. The passengers were then brought ashore in the Greif's two lifeboats . The steam ships Zaehringen and the city of Meersburg , called for help in the evening, were unable to tow the steamship free. Thereupon the twin screw motor ship Mainau was used, the stern to stern with the stranded griffin tried to plan the sandbank with its propeller jet. On December 23, the Greif was released again in this way, which was then towed to Constance by the steamers Stadt Konstanz and Stadt Meersburg . Investigations at the shipyard showed that the ship was undamaged apart from a few scratches. Even a control trip did not provide any information about why the steamer ran aground.
Several months after this stranding, however, the meanwhile retired helmsman of the Greif provided the explanation for the incident in his round table. After casting off in Überlingen, he had filled himself a pipe and placed his steel tobacco box on the ship's compass . This had caused the compass needle to deviate eleven degrees to port .
The Greif was withdrawn from service and scrapped in autumn 1933. Her successor from 1935 was Baden .
photos
The Greif left the port of Constance around 1905
literature
- Karl F. Fritz, Steamship Adventure on Lake Constance . 2nd Edition. Meersburg 1990, ISBN 3-927484-00-8 , pp. 43-47
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ Bodenseeschifffahrt.de
- ↑ Schiff-Schweiz.ch ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
