Kaiser Wilhelm (ship, 1887)
 the Kaiser Wilhelm in Diesbar
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The paddle steamer Kaiser Wilhelm was built in the Blasewitz shipyard in 1887 . The ship was laid with hull number 21 on the keel . The ship was named after the German Kaiser Wilhelm I. In 1919 it was renamed Grosspriesen and in 1919 Saxonia .
The time until 1919
After commissioning in May 1887, the smooth-deck steamer ran for the Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company (SBDG) until 1921 . As a result of the commissioning of Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1901, the ship was taken out of service for two years due to overcapacity.
At the end of World War I , the ship was in 1919 due to difficult economic conditions laid . On May 25, 1919, like all ships bearing the name of a monarch or a monarchy, it was renamed and given the name Grosspriesen after the Bohemian Elbe village Großpriesen (Czech: Velké Březno ). On September 11, 1919, it was sold to the Otto Krietsch shipping company in Magdeburg for 115,000 marks .
The time after 1919
The ship was given an upper deck and a steam steering engine and was used as the Saxonia . The ship was bought by the Hamburg shipping company Behnke & Mewes in 1938 . However, the ship does not appear in the shipping company's ship lists. In the winter of 1940/41 it sank in the port of Derben (Saxony-Anhalt) due to ice pressure . In 1959 the ship was scrapped. Nothing is known about the use of the ship in the GDR.
The steam engine
The steam engine was an oscillating low-pressure two-cylinder twin steam engine with injection condensation and an output of 110 hp. It comes from the Crown Prince, who was built in 1858 . It was built by the English mechanical engineering company John Penn and Sons . The two-flame tube suitcase boiler was built by the Saxon Steamship and Mechanical Engineering Company of the Austrian Northwest Steamship Company in Dresden .
Captains of the ship
- Carl Friedrich Klemm 1888–1889
- Carl August Russmann 1890-1892
- Friedrich Carl Kunze 1893–1898
- Carl Friedrich Jahn 1899–1900
- Ernst Heinrich Oskar Höhle 1903–1918
literature
- Hans Rindt: The Weisse Flotte Dresden . Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv 3, Oceanum-Verlag, Wiefelstede 1980, ISBN 978-3-7979-1523-8 , pages 69–114 ( online as PDF ; 5.1 MB).
- Shipping calendar for the Elbe area from 1888 to 1914
- Shipping calendar for the Elbe area and the Märkische Wasserstrassen from 1915 to 1920
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Frank Müller, Wolfgang Quinger: The Dresden Paddle Steamer Fleet , Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-7688-1904-6