Empress Auguste Victoria (ship)
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The Empress Auguste Victoria was a German steamship owned by the Esens-Bensersiel-Langeoog shipping company .
history
The ship, built in 1896 at the Seebeck shipyard in Geestemünde , was named after the last German Empress Auguste Viktoria . The launch took place on May 9, 1896. It was baptized by the daughter of the shipyard owner with the following baptism:
“Whatever shipbuilding art and diligent German hand built out of German steel, it confidently sailed to the seas, so that the German from the inland could trade even more closely with the German island! The highest German woman who created a monument for herself in the German heart, more permanent than Erz. She has graciously consecrated her own name to you; drive under German protection, God give you his company! Then I baptize you "Empress Auguste Victoria"! Go well! The telegram from the Empress on the launch read: I send the company my congratulations and blessings on the launch of the steamer named after me. I hope that the ship will always be of honor, joy and benefit to society - Auguste Victoria, Empress and Queen. "
The ship served the ferry connection between Langeoog and Bensersiel until 1951 . Occasionally, it was used on excursions to the German island of Helgoland . Between 1915 and the end of the First World War , it was used as a minesweeper in the Baltic Sea after it was confiscated by the Imperial Navy . In 1951 the ship was sold to a Hamburg scrapping yard and scrapped a year later.
technology
The Empress Auguste Victoria had a compound steam engine with surface condensation with a total output of 125 hp. The maximum speed of the ship was 10 knots.