Guillaume Tell (ship, 1823)
 The Guillaume Tell in front of Geneva
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The Guillaume Tell ( Wilhelm Tell ) was the first steamship to sail on Lake Geneva and also the first steamship in Switzerland .
The American consul in France Edward Church visited Lake Geneva in 1822. Since he realized that there were no steamships operating there, he decided to operate a steamship line here. He applied to the canton of Vaud and the canton of Geneva for a license to use a steamship on Lake Geneva. When the permit was granted, he had a wooden ship built by Mauriac in Bordeaux , which he equipped with a steam engine and a boiler from Liverpool .
The ship was completed on May 28, 1823, and the maiden voyage on Lake Geneva took place on June 18. From July 1, 1823, the ship took up regular connections from Geneva to Ouchy . This route took about 6 hours. In 1824 Edward Church sold Guillaume Tell to the newly founded Société du Bateaux à Vapeur le Guillaume-Tell . That same year, got paddle steamer by the Winkelried competition.
As early as 1836 the Guillaume Tell was out of date and was decommissioned. In the same year it was scrapped.
literature
- Dietmar Bönke: Paddle wheel and impeller: The shipping of the railroad on Lake Constance , Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3862457144 , p. 19.
Web links
- Compagnie Générale de Navigation sur le lac Léman (CGN)
- Lac Léman 1823-1869
- 1823: un vapeur change le Léman