Rütli (ship, 1929)

**Rütli**
Ship data
flag	Switzerland
Ship type	Motor ship
home port	Lucerne
Owner	Shipping company Vierwaldstättersee
Shipyard	Sachsenberg brothers, Roßlau an der Elbe / DGV shipyard, Lucerne
Launch	May 13, 1929
Commissioning	1929
Ship dimensions and crew
length	22.4 m ( Lüa )
width	4.9 m
displacement	31.1
crew	2
Machine system
machine	Diesel engine
Machine ; performance	80.9 kW (110 PS)
Top ; speed	12 kn (22 km / h)
propeller	1
Transport capacities
Permitted number of passengers	140

The Rütli is a passenger - motor boat on Lake Lucerne in Switzerland . The ship is operated by the Lake Lucerne Shipping Company (SGV). It is the smallest ship in the company's fleet and its oldest active motor ship. In the liner service, it is mainly used on courses in the Lucerne bay of Lake Lucerne.

history

Signal tone (brass whistle) of the Rütli

Since the paddle steamer city of Lucerne had been delivered with defects by the Sachsenberg brothers' shipyard , they supplied the hull for a new small motor ship as part of the contractual penalty . The superstructures were built by the then steamship company of the Vierwaldstättersee (DGV) in their own shipyard in Lucerne. Despite the global economic crisis, the DGV came cheaply to a sister ship of the Reuss from 1926.

Compared to the Reuss , on whose plans the Rütli was based, structural improvements were made during the construction. In 1939 a rear superstructure was created and in 1957 a new diesel engine from Saurer replaced the original MWM 4-stroke diesel without a compressor. The ship later received a MAN four-stroke engine type D 2866 E, which acts on a fixed propeller. Alterations were made in 1989, and various renovation work was carried out in 2003 and 2004, including sandblasting the hull.

The sound of its original brass whistle as a signal tone is characteristic of the ship.

commitment

The Rütli is used for scheduled trips as well as for special trips. The courses in the Lucerne Lake Basin Lucerne - Meggenhorn - Lucerne are referred to by SGV as walking and city ships. This circuit serves the stations Lucerne, Tribschen , Verkehrshaus- Lido, Seeburg, Hermitage and Meggenhorn.

Web links

Commons : Rütli - collection of images, videos and audio files

MS Rütli on the SGV website.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Erich Liechti et al .: Shipping on Lake Lucerne. History and register of ships. Verlag Eisenbahn, Villigen 1974, ISBN 3-85649-021-3 , p. 68.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Kurt Hunziker, Heinz Amstad: Vierwaldstättersee - our fleet . Ed .: Shipping company of the Vierwaldstättersee. Dampferzeitung, Luzern 2001, ISBN 3-9522296-0-1 , p. 65 .
↑ ^a ^b scd: Jubilee: The motor ship Rütli is 80 years old . In: Lucerne newspaper . May 13, 2009. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
↑ 80 years of the motor ship “Rütli” / 50 years of the motor ship “Schwyz”. SGV brochure, 2009.
↑ Timetable summer 2019 . Shipping company of Lake Lucerne. S. 2. Retrieved November 3, 2019.

[liechti-1] Erich Liechti et al .: Shipping on Lake Lucerne. History and register of ships. Verlag Eisenbahn, Villigen 1974, ISBN 3-85649-021-3 , p. 68.

[flotte-2] Kurt Hunziker, Heinz Amstad: Vierwaldstättersee - our fleet . Ed .: Shipping company of the Vierwaldstättersee. Dampferzeitung, Luzern 2001, ISBN 3-9522296-0-1 , p. 65 .

[lz-3] scd: Jubilee: The motor ship Rütli is 80 years old . In: Lucerne newspaper . May 13, 2009. Retrieved November 3, 2019.

[4] 80 years of the motor ship “Rütli” / 50 years of the motor ship “Schwyz”. SGV brochure, 2009.

[5] Timetable summer 2019 . Shipping company of Lake Lucerne. S. 2. Retrieved November 3, 2019.