Meissen (ship, 1857)
Meissen paddle steamer on the Elbe
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The Meissen paddle steamer was built in the Blasewitz shipyard in 1857 . The ship was named Germania to set keel . It is the first ship that was built in parts at the shipyard. The shipbuilding company WU Pearce in Ludwigshafen was the manufacturer of the ship parts .
The time until 1880
After commissioning as a smooth-deck steamer , the ship drove for the United Saxon-Bohemian Steamship , which was converted into the Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company (SBDG) in March 1867 . The iron ship had a wooden ship floor, which was renewed in 1871.
In order to remove the access of the Kingdom of Prussia , the ship was moved to Theresienstadt in May 1866 during the Austro-Prussian War .
In 1874 it was named Meissen in order to be able to name the ship Germania , which was put into service that year . In 1878 the ship received a new two-flame tube trunk boiler from the Prague ship and mechanical engineering company Ruston & Co. In the autumn of 1881, the ship was decommissioned and scrapped.
The steam engine
The steam engine is an oscillating, low-pressure two-cylinder twin steam engine with injection condensation with an output of 110 hp. It was built by John Penn and Sons in Greenwich. The two-flame tube suitcase boiler with 2 bar steam pressure also came from this company . The price for the boiler and machine was 15,100 thalers . Crown Prince Wilhelm, built in 1881, received the boiler and the machine .
Captains of the ship
- Carl Protze 1858-1865
- Carl August Lehmann 1866–1870
- Carl Gottlob Hamisch 1871–1873
- Heinrich Ehregott Müller 1874–1881
literature
- Hans Rindt: The Weisse Flotte Dresden . Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv 3, pages 69–114 ( online as PDF ; 5.1 MB).
- Heinz Trost: traditional paddle steamer Diesbar . Lauenburg booklets on the history of inland navigation, Lauenburg 2nd edition 1990
- Address and business manual of the royal capital and residence city of Dresden 1858 to 1881