Emperor Franz Josef (ship, 1880)
Emperor Franz Josef at the Carolabrücke
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The paddle steamer Kaiser Franz Josef was built in the Blasewitz shipyard in 1880 . The ship was under the name of Franz Josef with the hull number 16 to set keel . It was named after Franz Joseph I , Emperor of Austria. In 1911 it was renamed František Josef , in 1918 in Mělník , 1937 in Hradčany , 1942 in Peter Parler and in 1945 again in Hradčany .
history
The time until 1911
After commissioning as a smooth deck steamer on May 9, 1880, the ship drove for the Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company (SBDG). In 1888 the paddle wheels were converted into patent paddle wheels. In the winter of 1889/1890 the ship received a new two-flame tube suitcase boiler from the Saxon Steamship and Mechanical Engineering Company of the Austrian Northwest Steamship Company in Dresden . On October 3, 1911, the ship was sold to the Prague Vltava and Elbe steam shipping. The purchase price of 24,500 marks (17,150 Austrian crowns ) was paid in cash upon delivery in Leitmeritz .
The time after the sale
The ship was used under the name František Josef (= Czech name form of the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I) from May 26, 1912 on the Vltava between Prague and Mělník and further on the Elbe to Liběchov . In 1916 traffic on this route was stopped due to the shortage of personnel and coal caused by the First World War . After the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic in October 1918, like all ships bearing the name of a monarch or a monarchy, it was renamed and given the name Mělník . Until 1921, the ship was only used intermittently. From 1921 it was used on the route from Prague to Štěchovice .
On January 1, 1937, the PPS was incorporated into the newly founded Československou plavební akciovou společností labskou (ČPSL). In the course of this, the ships were given new names. The Mělník was renamed Hradčany . In 1937 the ship and engine were given a general overhaul. In addition to the removal of the wheel arches, it also received a steam control engine . After the occupation of the Czecho-Slovak Republic in March 1939 by German troops, the ČPSL was renamed the Böhmisch-Mährische Elbeschiffahrt AG (BMES). The names of the ships were retained for the time being. It was not until 1942 that the company's deputy general director, Richard Tauche , succeeded in renaming the ships. The Hradčany got the name Peter Parler . In 1940 the steam engine was converted into a compound steam engine. At the same time, the ship received a new steam boiler.
In 1944 the Wehrmacht took over the ship and converted it into a supply ship. At the end of the Second World War in 1944/45, the ship was used as a supply ship and for transporting refugees on the northern Elbe. In 1945 it was sunk in Magdeburg . It was lifted again and repaired in the Hitzler shipyard in Lauenburg . Then it returned to Czechoslovakia. In Prague it was overhauled and put back into operation under the old name of Hradčany .
From June 1, 1946, the ship was in service on the newly opened route from Mělník to Poděbrady . However, the traffic was stopped a short time later.
On February 22, 1948, the PPS was nationalized and deleted from the commercial register in 1950. On January 1, 1949, the ČPSL was renamed Československá plavba Labská (ČSPL) and on July 1, 1952 in Československá plavba labsko-oderská (ČSPLO). In 1961, passenger shipping in Czechoslovakia was restructured. The Hradčany was assigned to the newly founded Dopravnímu podniku - Osobní lodní doprava (DP-OLD) of the Prague public transport company and was mainly used as an excursion steamer in the Prague area. In 1967 the ship was decommissioned and used as a warehouse. In 1981 it was scrapped in Smíchov .
The steam engine
The steam engine, like the three-flame tube suitcase boiler, comes from Franz Josef, built in 1855 . The machine was an oscillating low-pressure two-cylinder twin steam engine with injection condensation with an output of 110 hp. It was built by the Moabit mechanical engineering institute . In 1940 the machine was converted by ČKD (Českomoravská-Kolben-Daněk AG) into a compound machine with an output of 140 hp and the boiler installed in 1890 was replaced. The new steam boiler had a steam pressure of 14 bar .
After the ship was scrapped, the steam engine was made available to the Lauenburg Shipping Museum . The machine has been exhibited there with the side wheels attached since 2001.
Captains of the ship
- Carl Gottlob Thieme 1881
- Ignaz Hora 1882-1887
- Carl August Helm 1888
- Wilhelm Hübel 1889–1891
- Carl Herman Hönel 1892-1893
- Carl August Helm 1894
- Gustav Eduard Hering 1895
- Carl August Helm 1896–1897
- Franz Lauzecky 1898-1900
- Wenzel Franz Rosche 1901–1910
- Samuel August Füssel 1911
literature
- Frank Müller, Wolfgang Quinger: With steam and paddle wheel on the Upper Elbe . transpress VEB Verlag for Transport, Berlin, 1988, ISBN 3-344-00286-4 .
- Miroslav Hubert, Michael Bor: Osobní lodě na Vltavě 1865 - 1985 . Transport and Communication Publishing House, Prague, 1985.
- Address and business manual of the royal capital and residence city of Dresden 1881 to 1884
- Shipping calendar for the Elbe area from 1885 to 1911
Web links
- Pražská paroplavební společnost , History of the Prague Steamship Company (in Czech), accessed on February 10, 2016
- Steam engine of the passenger steamer Kaiser Franz Josef
- List of paddle steamers of the Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company