Olga (ship, 1854)

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Olga
Olga and the "coal eater"
The Olga and the "cabbage eaters"
Ship data
flag WurttembergKingdom of Württemberg Württemberg
Ship type Smooth deck steamer
home port Friedrichshafen
Owner Royal Württemberg State Railways
Shipyard Machine factory in Esslingen
Launch 1854
Whereabouts Scrapped in 1892
Ship dimensions and crew
length
41.65 m ( Lüa )
width 9.05 m
Draft Max. 1.8 m
displacement 119  t
Machine system
machine Steam engine with paddle wheel drive on both sides
indicated
performanceTemplate: Infobox ship / maintenance / service format 		162 hp (119 kW)
Top
speed 		11.3 kn (21 km / h)
Transport capacities
Permitted number of passengers 300

The smooth-deck steamer Olga was the first Bodensee steamship to be put into operation by the Royal Württemberg State Railways . With the Olga , the fleet of ships of the Württembergische Eisenbahn was increased in order to cope with the increasing transport volume. The ship built by Maschinenfabrik Esslingen was named after Queen Olga .

Although Württemberg largely surrendered its sovereignty after the founding of the German Empire in 1871, the railways of all three southern German states and thus also Olga remained under the respective state sovereignty. There were therefore no passenger steamers on Lake Constance that sailed under the flag of the Empire.

In 1892 the successor ship Queen Charlotte was put into service. The Olga was put out of operation on the day the namesake died in Friedrichshafen.

literature

  • Klaus von Rudolff, Claude Jeanmaire: Shipping on Lake Constance. Volume 1 . ed. from the interest group Bodensee-Schiffahrt, Verlag Eisenbahn, Villigen AG (previously unpublished)

Web links

Commons : Olga  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Olga at Bodenseeschifffahrt.de