King Karl (ship, 1890)

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King Karl
King Karl 1910
King Karl 1910
Ship data
flag WurttembergKingdom of Württemberg Württemberg Germany
GermanyGermany 
Ship type Half saloon steamer with paddle wheel drive on both sides with eight iron blades each
home port Friedrichshafen
Owner Royal Württemberg State Railways
from 1920: Deutsche Reichsbahn
Shipyard Escher, Wyss & Cie. , Zurich
Launch 1890
Decommissioning 1933
Whereabouts Wrecked in 1937
Ship dimensions and crew
length
53.3 m ( Lüa )
51.0 m ( KWL )
width 12.2 m
Draft Max. 1.42 m
displacement 227.4 t / 264.9 t
Machine system
machine Inclined three-cylinder wet steam expansion machine from Escher-Wyss
Machine
performance 		500 hp (368 kW)
Top
speed 		13.5 kn (25 km / h)
Transport capacities
Permitted number of passengers 500

The paddle wheel steamer König Karl was the first new construction of a half saloon steamer for the Royal Württemberg State Railways . The ship took on the name of the smooth decker King Karl , until 1864 Crown Prince and after 1890 Württemberg . It was the first of three passenger ships of a similar design, the so-called "royal ships"; the two sister ships were the Queen Charlotte and the King Wilhelm . Characteristic of these ships and their successors were the large viewing windows in the half salon. The main area of ​​operation of the King Karl was the Obersee longitudinal traffic.

Shortly after its commissioning, two serious accidents occurred: On October 26, 1890, the König Karl collided with a floating wooden raft in front of Eriskirch and was so severely damaged on the bow and paddle wheel that repairs on the slipway of the shipyard in Friedrichshafen were necessary. While this work was still going on, the shipyard building burned down to the ground. The ship also burned out and had to be completely rebuilt in 1891.

After the First World War , the King Karl was allowed to keep her name, in contrast to the ships from Baden, Bavaria and Austria, which bore the names of members of the regent families. Only the ruler's coat of arms on the wheel arches was removed.

From 1931 the driving orders of the king Karl von der Ravensburg were taken over. In 1933, the König Karl was finally retired and four years later scrapped in Konstanz.

literature

  • Dietmar Bönke: paddle wheel and impeller. The shipping of the railway on Lake Constance . GeraMond Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-86245-714-4
  • Interest group Bodensee-Schiffahrt: Shipping on Lake Constance - Volume 2: The heyday of steam shipping . Verlag Eisenbahn, CH Villigen AG 1981, ISBN 3-85649-071-X

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