Prince Adalbert (ship, 1895)

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Prince Adalbert
Post steamer Kiel Korsoer.jpg
Mail steamer on the Kiel-Korsör line
Ship data
Flags: German EmpireThe German Imperium German Empire
Ship type : Steamship
Use: Passenger and mail ship
first home port: Kiel
Ship christening
Builder: Howaldtswerke
Build number: 297
Owner: Sartori & Berger
Technical specifications
Build number: 297
Measurement : 702 GRT
Length over all: 62.6 m
Width over everything: 8.7 m
Max. Draft :
machine
Drive: Steam engine
Machine power: 1300 PSi
Top speed: 13 kn
Screws: 2
Chimneys: 2
Masts: 2
Others
Number of passengers 650
Number of crew:
other names: Mayor Smidt

history

Eduard Krause-Wichmann , representation of one of the mail steamers
Sister ship Prinz Waldemar

The twin screw steamer Prinz Adalbert was operated by the Kiel shipping company Sartori & Berger and from 1895 sailed on the Kiel- Korsör route , which had been regularly operated by paddle steamers since 1880 . It served as a passenger steamer and as a mail ship, the departure times of which were incorporated into the continental railway timetables by the European timetable conference. On May 2, 1910, Theodore Roosevelt and his family used the ship for a trip to Korsør. Like its sister ships, Prinz Waldemar and Prinz Sigismund, the steamer was known for its luxurious furnishings. Prince Adalbert's call sign for radio telegraphy traffic was dp a.

During the First World War , the Prinz Adalbert and her sister ships were used as auxiliary steamer in Kiel. Prince Adalbert received the designation auxiliary steamer B of the Baltic Sea .

After the war was Prince Adalbert to Mayor Smidt renamed and re-used as a ferry. However, the Kiel-Korsør line was abandoned in 1924 as uneconomical. But the steamer existed until 1929.

The German Maritime Museum has issued a paper model kit on a scale of 1: 250 for this ship.

literature

  • Katrin Kroll: Between advertising and propaganda. Kiel 2006, ISBN 3-937719-37-7 , p. 38.
  • Peter Schubert among other things: The German navies in the mine war. Volume 1. Rostock 2006, ISBN 3-8334-4330-8 , p. 111.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kroll, p. 38
  2. ↑ http://earlyradiohistory.us/1905funk.htm
  3. ↑ Schubert, p. 111
  4. ↑ Renaming to Mayor Smidt
  5. ↑ Kiel Memorial Day: April 24, 1961 ( Memento from September 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ http://www.german-navy.de/hochseeflotte/ships/minelayers/index.html