Leopold (ship, 1831)

Leopold

Ship data Ship type Steamers with paddle wheel drive on both sides home port Constancy Owner Steamship company for Lake Constance and the Rhine in Constance Shipyard Josef Pitchard , Dover Launch October 15, 1831 Decommissioning 1840 Whereabouts Scrapped

Ship dimensions and crew length 32.5 m ( Lüa ) width 10.6 m

Machine system machine Steam engine Machine performance 40 hp (29 kW) Top speed 7.29 kn (14 km / h)

Transport capacities

The Leopold was a smooth-deck steamer that operated on Lake Constance .

history

The launch of the flush deck steamer Leopold took place on 15 October 1831 in Konstanz with the Princess Amalie von Furstenberg as godmother . With a voyage from Constance to Überlingen and Ludwigshafen , the ship began its regular service on November 30, 1831 on behalf of the “Steamship Company for Lake Constance and Rhine Constance”. In the following year, the company put the second ship, the smooth deck steamer Helvetia, into service. David Macaire d'Hogguèr was president of the society, founded in 1830 . He had previously had the Grand Duke Leopold von Baden granted him a 25-year privilege for the Baden steamship business.

The steamer Leopold mainly drove on the Obersee and Überlinger See , while the Helvetia took over the routes on which Rhine bridges had to be crossed. The ships were mainly intended for freight traffic; so-called pleasure trips were also carried out on Sundays. After a few years, the Leopold's wooden hull was used up and the steamer was replaced by a successor of the same name . This received an iron fuselage shell and thus brought it to 65 years of service.

Shortly before decommissioning, the first serious steam accident occurred on Lake Constance: in a storm off Staad SG, the tugboat attached to the Leopold and loaded with barrels sank together with the barge with two sailors and a worker. The next day about a hundred barrels were washed up on the bank near Friedrichshafen .

literature

• Karl F. Fritz: Adventure steamboat trip on Lake Constance . 2nd Edition. Meersburg 1990, ISBN 3-927484-00-8 , pp. 17-19

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gert Zang: Constance in the Grand Ducal Period . Volume 4.1 from the series History of the City of Konstanz . Verlag Stadler, Konstanz 1994, ISBN 3-7977-0301-5 , p. 52 f.
2. ^ Vorarlberger Landesmuseum (ed.): Shipping on Lake Constance - From the dugout canoe to the catamaran . Ernst Troll Verlag, Steißlingen 2005, ISBN 3-9809773-1-5 , p. 14
3. ↑ History of shipping in Switzerland ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Because various components of the old Leopold, including the steam engine, were still used, one can also find the term "conversion".
5. ↑ History of Lake Constance Shipping
6. ↑ Werner Deppert: With steam engine and paddle wheel. Steam navigation on Lake Constance 1817–1967 . Verlag Friedr. Stadler, Konstanz 1975, ISBN 3-7977-0015-6 , p. 58 f .