Lady of the Lake (ship, 1814)
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The Lady of the Lake was the first steamship to sail on the Elbe .
The paddle steamer ran in 1814 at John Gray in Kincardine from the stack and had a wooden hull . It was equipped with a 24 hp James Cook steam engine. From August 1815 he was used as a package ship on the Forth between Stirling and Newhaven .
The Glaswegian entrepreneur Peter Kincaid founded a company in May 1816 with the intention of operating a steamship on the Elbe. On December 6, 1815, he applied to the Hamburg Senate for permission to do so. On March 6, 1816, he received the privilege for four years. As a condition he had to become a Hamburg citizen. Originally he had planned to have a ship built in Hamburg. He rejected this and bought the Lady of the Lake .
Captain John Watson Cook, the brother of the mechanical engineer and co-owner James Cook, transferred the ship to Hamburg. He reached Cuxhaven on June 15, 1816 and Hamburg on June 17. On June 29th, the Lady of the Lake started her first trip from Hamburg to Cuxhaven and back. It took about seven hours down the river and about nine hours back. The passenger steamer started three days a week in Hamburg, Saturday, Monday and Wednesday, and made its way back the following day. The paddle steamer caused a stir in Hamburg. But many people were also skeptical. The fishermen too feared that the noise would drive the fish away. So in October 1816 the traffic was stopped again due to unprofitability.
On June 24, 1817, the Lady of the Lake returned to Scotland and was again used as a parcel ship on the Forth.
Web links
- 200 years ago: Full steam ahead across the Elbe , NDR
- The "Lady of the Lake" makes Hamburg steam , Hamburger Abendblatt
- Lady of the Lake , Cuxpedia
literature
- Hans Szymanski: Die Dampfschiffahrt in Lower Saxony and the adjacent areas from 1817 to 1867 , Bremen 2011, ISBN 9783867416788 , pp. 5-7 ( online ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Heinrich von Förster, Emil von Förster : Allgemeine Bauzeitung , Vienna 1866, p. 133 ( online ).
- ^ Heinrich von Förster, Emil von Förster : Allgemeine Bauzeitung , Vienna 1866, p. 144 ( online ).