The paddle steamer Koenig Johann was built in 1856 on the shipbuilding site in Krippen . It was the last wooden ship of the United Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company . It was named after the Saxon King Johann .
After commissioning as a smooth deck steamer , the ship drove for the United Saxon-Bohemian Steamship .
After only five years, the ship was decommissioned and scrapped at the end of the season in 1861. Parts of the ship were used in the construction of the Koenig Johann (II) .
Hans Rindt: The "White Fleet" Dresden. From the history of the Upper Elbe passenger shipping. Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv 3 (= Writings of the German Shipping Museum, Volume 12), Oceanum-Verlag, Wiefelstede 1980, ISBN 3-7979-1523-3 , 1980, pp. 69–114, especially pp. 80, 83 ( online as PDF ; 5 , 1 MB).
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 .
Address and business manual of the royal capital and residence city of Dresden 1855 to 1880
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