Salesel (ship, 1894)
 Paddle steamer Prinz Georg at the bastion
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The paddle steamer Salesel was built in 1894 in the Blasewitz shipyard. The ship was under the name of Prince George with the hull number 34 to set keel . In 1903 it was renamed King Georg , 1919 Salesel , 1946 Poděbrady and 1949 DSO Dynamo .
The time until 1945
After commissioning as a smooth deck steamer Whitsun 1894, the ship sailed for the Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company (SBDG) until 1923 . After the cessation of business operations in 1923, the ship sailed for the Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company (SBDA), which was newly founded in 1923 . The white painting of the ships, which was customary from 1926, earned it the name White Fleet . Prince Georg , namesake of the ship, was King of Saxony from 1902. In contrast to the three previously built ships Tetschen , Leitmeritz and Austria , there was no electrical lighting. Due to the 2 tonne alternator, the draft would have been too great for the planned use. It was used together with the Wettin on the Hamburg - Prague route .
After Prince George's coronation as King of Saxony on June 19, 1902, the ship was renamed King Georg in 1904 . On October 17, 1904, the corpse of King Georg, who died in Pillnitz on October 15, 1904, was brought to Dresden by ship.
On May 25, 1919, like all ships bearing the name of a monarch or a monarchy, it was renamed and given the name Salesel , named after the place Salesel . In the winter of 1926/27, a manual control winch was installed on the navigation bridge and electrical lighting was installed. In the winter of 1927/28 a steam control machine was installed and the wheel arches removed to make space for toilets. In the winter of 1928/29 the ship was also painted white.
In the summer of 1943 the Salesel, like all steamers, was camouflaged. At the end of the Second World War , the ship was in the port of Prossen .
The time after 1945
On August 26, 1945 the Salesel was confiscated by the Czechoslovak Republic and towed to Děčín . Here it was incorporated into the inventory of Československou plavební akciovou společností labskou (ČPSL). The seizure of the ship must be seen in connection with the participation of the Bohemian Georgschicht AG as one of the main shareholders in the SBDA. The ship was renamed in 1946 after the town of Poděbrady (Podebrady). In the course of a general overhaul, the steam engine was converted into a compound machine and a new boiler was installed. It was then used on the Hřensko (Herrnskretschen) - Roudnice nad Labem (Raudnitz) route. However, due to a lack of demand, the line was shortened to the route Herrnskretschen - Děčín. On January 1, 1949, the ČPSL was renamed Československá plavba Labská (ČSPL) and on July 1, 1952 in Československá plavba labsko-oderská (ČSPLO). In 1949 the ship was given the name of the sports association Dobrovolná sportovní organizace DSO Dynamo . In 1956 it was shut down and served as a floating sports center in the port of Smíchov . In 1959 it was brought to the eastern tip of Prague's Hetzinsel ( Ostrov Štvanice ) and scrapped here.
The steam engine
The steam engine comes from the bastion . It was an oscillating low-pressure two-cylinder twin steam engine with injection condensation with an output of 115 hp. It was built by the English mechanical engineering company John Penn and Sons . The two-flame tube suitcase boiler was supplied by the Übigau shipyard to the Deutsche Elbschiffahrts-Gesellschaft, Ketten. After 1945 the twin engine was converted into a high-pressure two-cylinder compound steam engine with injection condensation. The ship also received a new cylinder boiler with 15 bar steam pressure .
Captains of the ship
- Julius Hermann Steglich 1895–1896
- Carl Eduard Richter 1897–1901
- Carl August Kunze 1902–1918
- Friedrich August Winkler 1919–1920
literature
- Hans Rindt: The "White Fleet" Dresden. From the history of the Upper Elbe passenger shipping. Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv 3, 1980, pp. 69–114, especially p. 99 ( online as PDF ; 5.1 MB).
- Miroslav Hubert, Michael Bor: Osobní lodě na Vltavě 1865–1985 . Transport and Communication Publishing House, Prague, 1985.
- Shipping calendar for the Elbe area from 1895 to 1914
- Shipping calendar for the Elbe area and the Märkische Wasserstrassen from 1915 to 1920
Web links
- Information about the ship accessed on September 16, 2016
- Information on shipping accessed on September 16, 2016
- List of paddle steamers of the Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company