Neptune (ship, 1865)
_Kesselexplosion.jpeg) After a boiler explosion off Berlingen on December 20, 1869, the Glattdecker Rheinfall sank with five people on board.
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The Glattdecker Rheinfall , later renamed Neptun , was a glattdeck steamship with paddle wheel drive that operated on Lake Constance and the Upper Rhine .
The ship was made by Escher, Wyss & Cie. built and put into service in 1865 together with the sister ship Arenaberg by Schaffhausener Dampfboot AG. It operated on the route from Schaffhausen to Constance , with Schaffhausen being the home port.
Original ship name Rheinfall
On December 20, 1869, while leaving Berlingen near the landing stage, a boiler explosion occurred on the ship , in which seven people and several cattle were killed and others injured. The ship sank immediately. The boiler was recovered in 1995 and is a memorial at the ship's landing stage. The accident was recreated as a scene in 1935 on the painting “Ship's sinking in front of Berlingen” by the painter Adolf Dietrich . The ship's bell of the Rhine Falls hangs in memory of the Berlingen landing stage .
Renaming to Neptune after an accident
Two years later, in 1871, the sunken ship was lifted, repaired and put back into service under the new name Neptun . In 1922 it sank again during repair work in the shipyard, but was lifted again and continued to operate until it was finally scrapped in 1939.
Bell at the Berlingen jetty
Neptun's steam boiler at the Berlingen jetty
Display board for Neptune at the Berlingen jetty
Web links
- The Rhine Falls on bodenseeschifffahrt.de
- Painting by Adolf Dietrich
- Video: Glattdecker Riifall - The proud steamship Rheinfall. A ballad by Christoph Bürgin
Footnotes
- ↑ Information board at the Berlingen landing stage.