Princess Heinrich (ship, 1896)

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The Princess Heinrich was a German side paddle steamer that operated as a seaside resort ship in island traffic in the North Sea .

Construction and technical data

The ship, with two masts and a chimney, expired on April 11, 1896 at Blohm + Voss in Hamburg with the hull number 116 for the Ballin steamboat Rhederei GmbH of Hamburg shipowner Albert Ballin from the stack . It was 76.3 m long and 8.20 m wide (about 18 m over the wheel arches ) and measured 919 GRT . The passenger capacity was 540 people, the speed 14 knots . The delivery took place on June 2, 1896, the maiden voyage on June 6, 1896.

In 1910, the Princess Heinrich was rebuilt and equipped with rolling tanks, which allowed a quieter and faster journey.

career

The ship, advertised as “Salon Schnelldampfer” by the shipping company, which operated under the name of Nordsee-Linie Dampfschiffs-Gesellschaft mbH from 1897, drove passengers from Hamburg via Cuxhaven to Helgoland , Norderney and the North Frisian Islands . In 1904/05, Princess Heinrich was chartered out to HAPAG every winter and was used by HAPAG in the Riviera service between Genoa , Nice and Monaco until 1913/14 .

With the takeover of the North Sea Line on January 1, 1905 by HAPAG , whose General Director Ballin had been since 1899, HAPAG assumed the leading role in the seaside resort service on the North Sea coast. Nothing changed in the service of Princess Heinrich until the beginning of the First World War . Then the seaside resorts were closed, the service stopped and the seaside resort ships were called in by the Imperial Navy as auxiliary ships.

After the war, from October 12, 1920, Princess Heinrich was employed in the East Prussian Sea Service established in January 1920 , as was the HAPAG seaside resort ship Bubendey . Both ships, as well as the Gruessgott des Norddeutscher Lloyd , which had been deployed there since June 1, 1920 , had the disadvantage that, due to the lack of sleeping cabins, they could not make night trips on the 14-15 hour route. Only Odin and Hertha, who joined the Stettiner steamship company JF Braeunlich from November 1920, were then able to offer overnight trips.

On June 15, 1923, Princess Heinrich was sold to the Köhlbrand shipyard in Hamburg to be scrapped .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New buildings Blohm & Voss
  2. ↑ https://sites.google.com/site/seedienstostpreussen/
  3. ↑ http://www.schiffe-maxim.de/prinzessin_heinrich.htm

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