Loschwitz (ship, 1888)
 Paddle steamer Loschwitz in Dresden − Blasewitz
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The paddle steamer Loschwitz was built in 1888 as the second ship with this name in the Blasewitz shipyard. The ship was laid with the hull number 25 on the keel . In 1902 the name was changed to Lužkec and in 1906 to Count Moltke .
The time until 1906
After commissioning as a smooth deck steamer , the ship drove for the Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company (SBDG). Like its sister ship Blasewitz, the ship deviated from the usual design of the ships used by the company. The lower deck had 13 large-format panoramic windows on each side in the foredeck and 14 in the aft. The ship was mainly used on the route between Dresden and Pillnitz Castle . The length of the ship was only 37 m. In 1896 the ship received a new boiler from the Saxon Steamship and Mechanical Engineering Company of the Austrian Northwest Steamship Company.
On December 31, 1902, the ship and the sister ship Blasewitz were rented to the Prague Vltava and Elbe steam shipping for a period of 6 years. The net price was 30,500 marks per ship, payable in 6 installments. The last installment was due on December 31, 1907. After the last installment had been paid, the ship was to become the property of the Prague company free of charge. The real rental price was 6,000 marks a year, per ship. The Prague company was given the right to put the Czech form of the ship's German name on the wheel arch above the original name. The ship's machinist was provided by the SBDG. The ship was used here from June 16, 1902 on the newly opened route from Prague-Karlin to Klecany . The Czech side ended the contract by not paying the installment on December 31, 1905.
In 1906 the ship was sold, together with the Blasewitz , for 55,195 marks to the 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 . This was built by the Dresdner Maschinenbau und Schiffswerft Uebigau AG with the factory no. 1133. The transfer to Hameln led between Cuxhaven and Bremerhaven across the North Sea.
The time after the sale
From May 5, 1906, the ship was used under the name Graf Moltke on the Oberweser in passenger shipping. From January 26, 1907, the ship sailed under the flag of the Oberweser-Dampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft F. W. Meyer Hameln (OWDG). In 1923 and 1925 the ship was lengthened by 4 m each. Both the fore and the aft have been lengthened by 4 m each. The Wehrmacht confiscated the ship in 1941 and used it as a supply ship on the Vistula in the Puławy area . It reached its place of use via the Mittelland Canal , Elbe-Havel Canal , Havel , Oder-Havel Canal , Oder , Warthe , Netze , Bromberger Canal , Brahe and Vistula. The distance covered to Pulawy is about 1250 km. The ship ran aground in Pulawy in 1944 and was badly damaged by fire. In 1945 it was raised again. After the repair, it was used by the iffegluga Warszawa (Warsaw Shipping Company) as a passenger ship. In 1947 the ship was scrapped.
The steam engine
The steam engine came from Loschwitz, built in 1876 . Both the steam engine and the boiler were built by the shipbuilding and mechanical engineering company Ruston & Co. in Prague. It was an oscillating high-pressure two-cylinder compound steam engine with an output of 80 hp.
Captains of the ship
- Carl Hermann Jahn 1889–1890
- Benjamin Beckel 1891-1892
- August Wilhelm Günther 1893–1897
- Carl Otto Viehrig 1898
- Wenzel Franz Rosche 1899
- Gustav Eduard Fischer 1900–1901
- Carl Gottlieb Pohle 1902
See also
literature
- Hans Rindt: The "White Fleet" Dresden. From the history of the Upper Elbe passenger shipping. Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv 3 (= writings of the German Shipping Museum, Volume 12), Oceanum-Verlag, Wiefelstede 1980, ISBN 3-7979-1523-3 , 1980, pp. 69–114, especially p. 94 ( online as PDF ; 5.1 MB).
- Shipping calendar for the Elbe area from 1889 to 1902