The paddle steamer was bought by the Hanseatic Steamship Company on April 16, 1846, put into service as Lübeck and used on the Hamburg - Hull shipping line . In 1847 the ship was completely rebuilt and extended from 42.8 meters to 50 meters. On June 23, 1848, the Hamburg Admiralty bought the ship for the so-called Hamburg Flotilla with financial support from the German Confederation . The ship, now known as the corvette , was handed over to the German fleet on October 15, 1848. After the fleet was disbanded, the Lübeck was sold to General Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. on December 12, 1852. acquired in London and used as Newcastle in the European voyage. It was launched in 1854 and scrapped in 1858 .
literature
Hans H. Hildebrand / Albert Röhr / Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships. Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present , 7 volumes in one volume, Ratingen (Mundus Verlag) o. J., Vol. 4, p. 89. I
Jörg Duppler : The Hamburg flotilla from 1848 under black-red-gold , in: Ders. (Ed.): Hamburg at sea. Maritime and military contributions to the history of Hamburg , Herford (Verlag ES Mittler & Sohn) 1989, pp. 93–122. ISBN 3-8132-0318-2
Erich Gröner : The German warships 1815–1945 , Volume 1: Armored ships, ships of the line, battleships, aircraft carriers, cruisers, gunboats , Munich (Bernard & Graefe) 1982, pp. 108–110.
↑ a b Walther Hubatsch et al .: The First German Fleet 1848–1853 . Ed .: Deutsche Marine Akademie & Deutsches Marine Institut, series of publications vol. 1, p. 59
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