Libussa (ship, 1870)
 Paddle steamer Libussa in front of the Blue Wonder in Dresden
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The paddle steamer Libussa was built in the Blasewitz shipyard in 1870 . The ship was laid with hull number 12 on the keel . In 1910 the name was changed to Braunschweig and in 1924 to Fürst Bismarck .
The time until 1910
After its commissioning on June 5, 1870, the smooth deck steamer drove for the Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company (SBDG). In 1878 the ship received a new trunk boiler from the Prague ship and mechanical engineering company Ruston & Co.
In 1906 the ship was parked because a sale was planned together with the Blasewitz and the Loschwitz to the Oberweser steam shipping .
On February 11, 1910, the ship was sold to Oberweser Dampfschiffahrt. Before the sale, the ship was overhauled at the Laubegaster shipyard. An upper deck was installed between the wheel arches. At the same time, the ship received a steam steering engine , built by Dresdener Maschinenfabrik und Schiffswerft Uebigau AG , with the serial no. 1317. On April 26, 1910, the ship started its voyage to Hameln together with Kaiser Wilhelm, who had been converted in Übigau . The overpass led between Cuxhaven and Bremerhaven across the North Sea.
The time after the sale
From May 3, 1910, the ship was used under the name Braunschweig on the Oberweser in passenger shipping. In 1924 the ship was rebuilt at the Roland shipyard in Bremen . In addition to the extension by 8 m, the ship now received patent paddle wheels. The existing machine system including steam boiler was removed and scrapped. The ship received the steam engine and the steam boiler from the broken-up Prince Bismarck . After the completion of the work, the ship went back to service under the name of Prince Bismarck II .
At the end of the Second World War , the ship was buoyant, but not operational. After the repair, it resumed regular service in 1947.
The poor condition of the ship led to its decommissioning in 1958. It was in Hameln launched . A planned modernization and a conversion to diesel drive were not carried out for cost reasons. In 1962 the ship was scrapped and the steam engine exhibited in the Focke Museum in Bremen. It was later handed over to the Museum of German Inland Shipping in Duisburg .
The steam engine
The original steam engine and the two-flame tube suitcase boiler came from Raudnitz, built in 1865 . It was an oscillating low-pressure two-cylinder twin steam engine of the "Wilhelmshütte, Akt.-Ges. for mechanical engineering and iron foundry ”in Sprottau with an output of 75 HP. In 1924, the steam engine and boiler built by Fürst Bismarck, built in 1877, were installed. The origin of this machine is not entirely clear; It was probably built in 1877 by the “Saxon Steamship and Mechanical Engineering Company” . In 1898 the machine was apparently bought by the “Prager Maschinenbau-Aktiengesellschaft vorm. Ruston & Co. ”and built into the Fürst Bismarck in 1902 . It was an oscillating high-pressure two-cylinder compound steam engine with an output of 125 hp.
Captains of the ship
- Ferdinand Huebner 1871–1876
- Wenzel Franz Rosche 1877–1879
- Wilhelm Huebel 1880
- Carl August Helm 1881–1888
- Carl Hermann Hönel 1889–1890
- Gottlieb August Forkert 1891-1892
- Benjamin Beckel 1893
- Carl Hermann Hönel 1894
- Benjamin Beckel 1895
- Wenzel Stolz 1896–98
- Josef Hübel 1899–1901
- Gustav Eduard Fischer 1902
- Carl Otto Viehrig 1903–1905
- Wilhelm Wirsam 1907–1910
See also
literature
- Hans Rindt: The Weisse Flotte Dresden . Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv 3, pp. 69–114
- Address and business manual of the royal capital and residence city of Dresden 1871 to 1884
- Shipping calendar for the Elbe area from 1885 to 1910