With the Queen Charlotte originally from 1854, was Olga replaced. Builder of the Queen Charlotte Maschinenfabrik Gotthilf Kuhn in Stuttgart-Berg, hull and superstructure was came from the shipyard of the brothers Sachsenberg from Roßlau . A special feature of the steamship was the so-called royal pavilion with a dome-like glass roof at the end of the half salon. As with all semi-saloon ships of the Württemberg royal class, the viewing windows were long and large in order to achieve the most maritime appearance possible. For the first time, seats for the second class were offered on a German Lake Constance ship. In 1893 it was put into service with the Royal Württemberg State Railways . After the end of World War I, in 1920 the fleet of ships from the former Württemberg, Baden and Bavarian state railways was taken over by the Deutsche Reichsbahn . In contrast to Baden, Bavarian and Austrian ships with ruler's names, the Württemberg ships were allowed to keep their regent names. Only the royal coat of arms on the wheel arches had to be removed.
At the beginning of the Second World War , the ship was rented by the Wehrmacht in 1939 and equipped with anti-aircraft guns in 1940. The retirement by the Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1943 was followed by the upgrade in 1944 as an anchored flak battery off Friedrichshafen with a quadruple gun on the forecastle and searchlights on the formerly royal stern pavilion. During the devastating air raid on Friedrichshafen on April 28, 1944, Queen Charlotte was hit by bombs at the berth in the harbor. She sank, was lifted again and at the end of 1944, the last royal ship on Lake Constance, was broken off.
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
Reinhard E. Kloser, Karl F. Fritz: The steamship Hohentwiel ... back on the road on Lake Constance . Verlag Stadler, Konstanz 1992, ISBN 3-7977-0244-2
Klaus von Rudolff, Claude Jeanmaire: Shipping on Lake Constance. Volume 2. The heyday of steam shipping: Contribution to the history of Lake Constance, history of the individual ships and registers . ed. from the interest group Bodensee-Schiffahrt, Verlag Eisenbahn, Villigen AG 1981. ISBN 3-85649-071-X
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