Prince Friedrich August (ship, 1895)
 Paddle steamer Prinz Friedrich August in front of the Blue Wonder in Dresden
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The paddle steamer Prinz Friedrich August was built in the Blasewitz shipyard in 1895 . The ship was laid with the hull number 36 on the keel . In 1903 it was named Crown Prince . In 1917 it was renamed Haslinger , 1919 Jagiełło and 1927 Witeź .
The time until 1918
The ship was christened at Pentecost 1895. Friedrich August von Sachsen , who gave the ship its name, carried out the christening himself. After commissioning as a smooth deck steamer , the ship drove for the Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company (SBDG). It was the first ship with an oscillating two-cylinder compound steam engine. After the death of King Albert , Prince Friedrich August rose to become Crown Prince. As a result, the ship was renamed the Crown Prince in 1903 . On October 10, 1917, the ship was rented by the German Army and relocated to the Vistula for war use under the name Haslinger . Here it was subordinated to the field railways department of the German Army in Warsaw . On April 22, 1918, the Warsaw shipping company Maurycy Fajan submitted an offer to buy. This was rejected by the SBDG as there was a ban on the sale of German ships abroad. On November 4, 1918 there was an offer to buy from the shipowner Chaim Rogozik from Płock . This offer was also rejected for the same reason.
The time in Polish ownership
On January 25, 1919, the shipping department of the field railroad, based in Berlin, terminated the lease. On August 12, 1919 the shipping company Chaim Rogozik renewed the purchase offer and offered 300,000 marks for the ship. This was again rejected for the reasons mentioned.
In the autumn of 1919, the Warsaw Transport and Shipping Company took over the ship and renamed it Jagiełło . The ship was used on the Vistula. The ship received a steam steering engine . The wheel arches were also removed.
The question of ownership was not clarified on the German side. On October 30, 1920, the SBDG demanded 1,416,500.36 marks from the German gentleman in outstanding rent. It was not until 1921 that the Reich Treasury Department paid 350,000 marks to the SBDG in a settlement.
In 1927 it was in service under the name Witeź in Warsaw . The name change probably took place before 1927, after the victory over the Russian troops in front of Warsaw, because the name Witeź means something like victory. It was obviously used on the 540 km long route to Pinsk . It sank here in 1929. It was raised and incorporated into the Polish Army . On September 18, 1939, the ship was sunk when the Red Army marched into Pinsk.
The steam engine
The steam engine was an oscillating, high-pressure, two-cylinder composite steam engine with injection condensation. Like the single-flame tube cylinder boiler, it was built by the Übigau shipyard of the Deutsche Elbschiffahrts-Gesellschaft, Ketten, with factory no. 94. The power was 140 hp. The steam boiler had a steam pressure of 9 bar .
Captains of the ship
- Carl Ferdinand Wolf 1896–1899
- Wenzel Stolz 1900–1901
- Carl Eduard Viehrig 1902–1903
- Josef Hille 1904–1905
- Friedrich August Winkler 1906–1917
literature
- Shipping calendar for the Elbe area from 1896 to 1914
- Shipping calendar for the Elbe area and the Märkische Wasserstrassen from 1915 to 1920