The steamship Rupprecht , named after the last Bavarian Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria , was completed in 1891, but was not finally put into operation until the beginning of 1892 due to the testing of several versions of a Körting jet condenser. Like the sister ship Prinz-Regent , the Rupprecht was built by the Munich machine factory JA Maffei . The Rupprecht operated on all shipping lines used from the port of Lindau . After the end of the monarchy in 1919 from Rupprecht the Munich . She was one of the ships in the Lindau fleet that drove to the Swiss internment in April 1945 with a motor ship in tow . In 1949 the ship was modernized and rebuilt. In the summer of 1956, Munich provided temporary services for the neighboring Austrian port of Bregenz . The ship was deleted from the fleet list on January 1, 1958. After six years of storage, the ship was finally scrapped after a Konstanz merchant had not received a license for further use as a floating restaurant.
Furnishing
With a length of 56.70 m, the width across the wheel arches was 13.52 m. The Rupprecht was equipped with a three-cylinder, triple expansion machine with a normal output of 450 hp, with forced travel with 600 hp and a speed of 26.6 km / h. The permitted number of people was 600 passengers. The salon and ancillary rooms were furnished by the Munich wagon factory Joseph Rathgeber in the neo-Rococo style.
