Queen of Württemberg (ship)

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Queen of Württemberg
Queen of Württemberg before Friedrichshafen (around 1850)
Queen of Württemberg before Friedrichshafen (around 1850)
Ship data
flag WurttembergKingdom of Württemberg Württemberg
home port Friedrichshafen
Owner Württembergische Bodensee-Dampfschiffgesellschaft
from 1854: Royal Württemberg State Railways
Shipyard Escher, Wyss & Cie. , Zurich
Launch 1847
Decommissioning 1882
Whereabouts Wrecked
Ship dimensions and crew
length
33.6 m ( Lüa )
width 8.66 m
Machine system
Machine
performance 		32 HP (24 kW)
Top
speed 		8.6 kn (16 km / h)

The smooth-deck steamer Queen of Württemberg was a Württemberg Lake Constance ship from 1847.

history

The Queen of Württemberg was the successor ship of the Wilhelm for the Obersee-Querverkehr to Romanshorn and Rorschach , operated in parallel with the Crown Prince . The ship provided this service with an inconspicuous reliability. In 1854 the two Württemberg ships, Crown Prince and Queen of Württemberg, were taken over by the Royal Württemberg State Railways . In 1860 there was a collision with the Swiss steamship Stadt Zürich , in which both ships were badly damaged.

When the Kingdom of Württemberg largely surrendered its sovereignty with the establishment of the Empire in 1871 , the Württemberg State Railways and thus also the Queen of Württemberg remained under state sovereignty. Therefore, the ship continued to sail under the Wuerttemberg flag and not that of the Empire.

After 35 years of operation, the Queen of Württemberg was retired and scrapped in 1882. There was no direct successor ship, only eight years later a new ship was laid with the König Karl . After the decommissioning of the Queen of Württemberg , the Württemberg steamship fleet comprised five passenger ships.

literature

  • Klaus von Rudolff, Claude Jeanmaire: Shipping on Lake Constance. Volume 1. ed. from the interest group Bodensee-Schiffahrt, Verlag Eisenbahn, Villigen AG 1981

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