Meissen (ship, 1857)

**Meissen**
	Meissen paddle steamer on the Elbe
Ship data
flag	Saxony
other ship names	Germania until 1874;
Ship type	Paddle steamer
home port	Dresden
Owner	Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company
Shipyard	Shipyard Blasewitz
Launch	1857
Commissioning	1858
Whereabouts	cancellation
Ship dimensions and crew
length	50.00 m ( Lüa )
width	4.18 m
Machine system
machine	2-flame tube suitcase boiler; 2-cylinder twin machine
Machine ; performance	110 hp (81 kW)
Transport capacities
Permitted number of passengers	400

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

The Germania on the Brühl's Terrace .

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

Web links

Commons : Meissen (ship, 1857) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

List of paddle steamers of the Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company