Lohengrin (ship)

Lohengrin

Lohengrin as delivered, 1890

Ship data flag  German Empire Ship type Passenger ship home port Cologne Shipping company PRDG (today KD) Shipyard L. Schmit & Zoon, Kinderdijk (NL) Build number 216 building-costs 230,000 marks Order 1889 Keel laying 1889 Launch August 1889 takeover March 28, 1890 Commissioning May 1, 1890 Whereabouts Wrecked in 1947

Ship dimensions and crew length 67.0 m ( Lüa ) width 7.5 m above wheel arches: 14.4 m Draft Max. 1.65 m

Machine system machine Two-cylinder composite steam engine indicated performance 700 hp (515 kW) propeller 2 × paddle wheels with 8 paddles, 3.80 m diameter

Transport capacities Load capacity 175 tdw Permitted number of passengers 1,650

The Lohengrin was a paddle steamer built in 1889/90 by the Preußisch-Rheinischen-Dampfschiffahrtgesellschaft (now Cologne-Düsseldorfer ), which was mostly used in liner services between Cologne and Mainz until 1938. The ship was scrapped in 1947 after damage caused by the war. It was the structurally identical sister ship of the Overstolz .

history

The Lohengrin in Cologne

The Lohengrin was the first of two identical ships to be built in 1889/90 under the construction number 216 at the L.Schmit & Zoon shipyard in Kinderdijk . From March 24th to 26th, 1890, the ship was transferred to Düsseldorf. Two days later, the three and a half hour inspection trip with passengers to Cologne took place. The festive maiden voyage with directors and administrative board members of the shipping company led on March 29 from Cologne to Rolandseck and back. The ship lay in the Rheinauhafen for the next three weeks for the final finishing and painting . On a special trip on April 21, the ship drove with guests of honor from Cologne to Koblenz . The official commissioning on the planned route from Cologne to Mainz was on May 1, 1890.

With the commissioning of the new Cologne passenger ship , the Lohengrin was shut down at the end of the 1938 season. After removing the boiler and the machine, KD first used them in the Deutz port and then in the Rheinauhafen as a living and workshop ship . From June 1942 to October 1943, forced laborers who were deployed in the port were quartered on the ship. At the beginning of 1945 the ship was badly damaged by a bomb. The wreck was scrapped in the spring of 1947.

Special missions

• On the instructions of the Allies, the ship was used as a troop transport in the area of ​​the Schiffahrtgruppe-West from June 13 to October 17, 1919 .
• As a result of a railway strike, the Cologne-Düsseldorfer took over the mail delivery on the Rhine from March 11 to December 17, 1923. A post office was set up in the lower front deck of the ships used, the front area of ​​the main deck served as a storage area for parcels. The post office workers lived on the ship during this time.

technology

The Lohengrin was powered by an inclined two-cylinder composite steam engine with slide control from Escher, Wyss & Cie. with an output of 700  PSi driven by two eccentric-controlled 3.80 m high paddle wheels with 8 paddles each. It had 2  cylinder boilers with a heating surface of 262 m² , which generated a steam pressure of 7.5  kp / cm².

literature

• Georg Fischbach: The ships of the Cologne-Düsseldorfer 1826-2004 , self-published, Marienhausen 2004, ISBN 3-00-016046-9
• Stephan Nuding: 175 years of Cologne-Düsseldorf Deutsche Rheinschiffahrt AG , Schardt Oldenburg 2001, ISBN 978-3-8984-1035-9

Web link

Commons : Lohengrin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ship's certificate from April 28, 1890
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Georg Fischbach: The ships of the Cologne-Düsseldorfer 1826-2004 , p. 336ff