Constance (ship, 1940)

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Constancy p1
Ship data
flag Germany
Ship type (planned) passenger ship
home port Constancy
Owner Deutsche Bundesbahn ,
Deutsche Reichsbahn
Shipyard Bodan shipyard
Launch February 1940
Whereabouts Demolished in 1958
Ship dimensions and crew
length
49.00 m ( Lüa )
width 10.50 m
Draft Max. 1.70 m
displacement 244.5
Machine system
machine 2 × MWM RH 235 S
Machine
performance 		2 × 325
Top
speed 		13.5 kn (25 km / h)
propeller 2 × VSA 14 F / 90
Transport capacities
Permitted number of passengers (planned) 500
Others

The last passenger ship of the Deutsche Reichsbahn for Lake Constance was supposed to be named Konstanz , but was no longer completed due to the war. Only the hull was temporarily used as an auxiliary and work ship for military and civil purposes. Most of the time it was in the planned home port of Constance and was mockingly called aircraft carrier there because of the lack of superstructures .

history

Building history

The two-deck motor ship in the successful Bodan design of the late 1930s, which was ordered from the Bodan shipyard in 1938 (commission number: 4800) , was somewhat smaller than its three predecessor models for use on the Überlinger See . The shipyard initially put the order on hold until the end of 1939. It was not until February 1940 that she was able to launch the hull with the main deck and the two engines, but still without a drive. The assembly of the prefabricated components has been postponed. The final construction freeze followed in 1942.

Use as an auxiliary and work ship

After two more years in the port of Constance, the Navy used the still unpowered hull temporarily as a torpedo catcher for the new torpedo test facility at Seewerk Immenstaad . In May 1944, Voith installed the missing Voith Schneider drive to test its suitability for mine clearance boats . Thereafter, the Konstanz is said to have been used for experiments with V-weapons . Shortly before the end of the war, it burned completely amidships in Friedrichshafen after being hit by bombs and was relocated to Konstanz. The French occupying power confiscated the parts that were no longer used in 1942. It was not used again until 1956 when the lake pipeline was laid for the Lake Constance water supply off Sipplingen . The hull of the Konstanz , which remained unfinished for twenty years, was demolished in 1958.

Relation of the planned Constance to Bavaria

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The constancy would be almost identical to the Bayern been.

The Bayern was built by Deggendorfer Werft for Lake Starnberg according to almost the same plans as the Konstanz . Started in 1938 and launched in 1939 , it lay unfinished in port during the war until it was put into service in 1948. The Bayern is still in operation.

See also

Web links

literature

  • Michael Berg: Motor shipping on Lake Constance under the Deutsche Reichsbahn and in the post-war period. Planning, construction and use of the White Fleet from 1920 to 1952. Verlag regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher 2011, ISBN 978-3-89735-614-6 , pp. 189–195 and 217–233.
  • Dietmar Bönke: paddle wheel and impeller. The history of the railroad on Lake Constance. GeraMond Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-86245-714-4 , pp. 70 and 264f.
  • Hans-Georg Brunner-Schwer, Karl F. Fritz: From the "Allgäu" to the "Graf Zeppelin". The large passenger ships of the German Lake Constance fleet since 1929 , Labhard Verlag, Konstanz 1997, ISBN 3-926937-36-X , pp. 127–129.
  • Klaus von Rudloff u. a .: Shipping on Lake Constance. Volume 3: The beginning of motor shipping. Verlag Eisenbahn, Villigen (CH) 1987, ISBN 3-85649-072-8 , p. 59f. and Fig. 295.

Footnotes

The data are taken from the sources mentioned above; Contradictions have been corrected.

  1. ↑ These are Germany , Karlsruhe and Swabia . The Stuttgart project planned for 1943 was no longer started.
  2. ↑ As evidenced several times in the literature, she was probably a target hulk .
  3. ^ The facility was provisionally put into operation on December 10, 1943 by Luftschiffbau Zeppelin .
  4. ↑ It is a meter shorter, has MAN machines and a twin screw drive