Riesa (ship, 1863)

**Riesa**
	Paddle steamer Riesa in front of the Albrechtsburg in Meißen
Ship data
flag	German Empire Lithuania
other ship names	Magdeburg from 1919; Willy from 1920; Liūtas from 1923;
Ship type	Paddle steamer
home port	Dresden
Owner	Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company
Shipyard	Shipyard Blasewitz
Launch	1863
Commissioning	1863
Whereabouts	unknown
Ship dimensions and crew
length	50.30 m ( Lüa )
width	4.70 m
Machine system
machine	2-flame tube suitcase boiler; 2-cylinder twin machine Lignite consumption approx. 398 kg / h
Machine ; performance	120 hp (88 kW)
Top ; speed	upstream: approx. 10.4 km / h ; downstream: approx. 15.0 km / h
propeller	2 side wheels
Transport capacities
Permitted number of passengers	maximum 598

The Riesa paddle steamer was built in the Blasewitz shipyard in 1863 . The ship was laid with the hull number 7 on the keel .

The time until 1919

After commissioning as a smooth-deck steamer , the ship drove for the United Saxon-Bohemian Steamship , which was converted into the Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company (SBDG) in March 1867 .

In order to avoid the access of the Kingdom of Prussia , the ship was moved to Theresienstadt during the Austro-Prussian War in May 1866 .

In 1880 the paddle wheels were widened. In 1883 the ship received a new two-flame tube suitcase boiler from the Saxon Steamship and Mechanical Engineering Company .

In autumn 1918 the ship was due to difficult economic conditions at the end of the First World War, launched on 3 March 1919 20,000 Mark to the shipping company Otto Krietsch in Magdeburg sold. It was painted black and named Magdeburg .

The time after the sale

Paddle steamer Liūtas in front of the Jesuit church in Kaunas

The ship was probably not used here. It was sold to Hermann Steffens in Magdeburg in June 1919. In April 1920 it was sold to August Horstmann in Wittenberg and was used here under the name Willy . Hermann Pohl from Wittenberg bought it in November 1920. Karl Krümmel bought it in July 1921 and it was used in the Memel region . In 1923 it was registered as Liūtas in Kaunas . The ship could still be recognized by its black paint. During a renovation, some of the windows in the aft ship were replaced by portholes . The further whereabouts are unknown. Probably the same career followed as with Saxonia (II) .

According to another account, a Christopher Westphalen from Harburg bought the ship in 1922 and scrapped it in 1923.

The steam engine

The steam engine and the first two-flame tube suitcase boiler were built by Escher Wyss & Co. in Zurich . It was an oscillating low-pressure two-cylinder twin steam engine with an output of 120 hp.

Captains of the ship

Unknown 1863
Carl Gottlob Hamisch 1864-1865
Ferdinand Huebner 1866-1870
August Hermann Froede 1871–1888
Carl August Schiller 1889–1895
Gustav Hermann Protze 1896
Emil Leberecht Kunze 1897
Benjamin Beckel 1898-1902
Emil Leberecht Kunze 1903–1905
Samuel Hermann Füssel 1906–1910
Wilhelm Wirsam 1911–1918

literature

Hans Rindt: The Weisse Flotte Dresden . Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv 3, pp. 69–114.
Frank Müller, Wolfgang Quinger: With steam and paddle wheel on the Upper Elbe . transpress VEB Verlag for Transport, Berlin, 1988, ISBN 3-344-00286-4 .
Address and business manual of the royal capital and residence city of Dresden 1863 to 1884
Shipping calendar for the Elbe area from 1885 to 1914
Shipping calendar for the Elbe area and the Märkische Wasserstrassen from 1915 to 1918

Web links

Commons : Riesa (Ship, 1863) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

List of paddle steamers of the Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company