Prince Albert (ship, 1845)

Prince Albert

Ship data flag  Saxony Ship type Paddle steamer home port Dresden Owner United Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Shipyard Machine factory Buckau of the United Magdeburg Shipping Compagnie Launch 1845 Commissioning 1845 Whereabouts cancellation

Ship dimensions and crew length 42.76 m ( Lüa ) width 4.88 m Draft Max. 0.40 m

Machine system machine 3-flame tube suitcase boiler 2-cylinder twin machine Machine performance 120 hp (88 kW) propeller 2 side wheels

Transport capacities Permitted number of passengers maximum 490

The paddle steamer Prinz Albert was built in the Buckau machine factory in Magdeburg in 1845 . The ship was laid with the hull number 17 on the keel . It was named after Albert von Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha , husband of Queen Victoria of Great Britain.

The period from 1845 to 1858

The paddle steamer Koenigin Maria and Prince Albert around 1850 in front of the Brühl Terrace .

The Prinz Albert arrived in Dresden on May 9, 1845 after her transfer voyage from Magdeburg. The construction time for the ship was only five months. Due to the high water level of the Elbe and the severe winter, the transport of the steam engine and the boiler of Prince Albert I from Dresden to Magdeburg was problematic . After being put into service as a smooth deck steamer , the wooden ship drove for the royal privileged Saxon Steamship Company, which was converted into the United Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company in April 1849 . It was used on the Dresden – Tetschen line .

On July 26th, 1846 there was a serious accident at Großpriesen . The downstream Germania rammed the upstream Prince Albert . While the Germania received only minor damage to the bow, a side wheel and the kitchen of the Prinz Albert were destroyed.

In the autumn of 1858 the ship was decommissioned and scrapped.

The steam engine

The steam engine, like the three-flame tube suitcase boiler, comes from the Prince Albert I, built in 1838 . The machine was a low-pressure, two-cylinder, twin-cylinder, oscillating steam engine with injection condensation. After the overhaul and improvement of the machine, the power was 120 hp. It was built by the English mechanical engineering company John Penn and Sons . Nothing is known about the whereabouts of the steam engine.

Captains of the ship

• Carl Protze 1855
• Anton Stolz 1856
• W. Döppe 1857
• Carl August Lehmann 1858

literature

• Hans Rindt: The Weisse Flotte Dresden . Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv 3, pp. 69–114.
• Address and business manual of the royal capital and residence city of Dresden 1855 to 1858

Web links

• List of paddle steamers of the Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company

Individual evidence

1. ^ Journal Echo . A steamboat accident. In: The humorist . No. 187 , August 6, 1846, p. 755 ( digital at ANNO , Austrian National Library).