Shipping company of Lake Lucerne

SGV Holding AG (Shipping company for Lake Lucerne)
legal form	Corporation
founding	1870 (Shipping Company of Lake Lucerne); 2018 (SGV Holding AG)
Seat	Lucerne
management	Stefan Schulthess, Managing Director SGV Holding AG Hans-Rudolf Schurter Chairman of the Board of Directors
Number of employees	458 FTE
sales	80.32 million CHF
Branch	Shipping company
Website	https://www.sgvgruppe.ch/
Status: 2018

The shipping company of Lake Lucerne ( SGV ) is a Swiss licensed company that operates shipping on Lake Lucerne . SGV is the largest inland shipping company in Switzerland and has its own shipbuilding company. The company is based in Lucerne . Its origins can be traced back to the year 1836, when the first steamship company on Lake Lucerne was founded. In 1870 this company merged with competing companies that were later founded to form today's company. While the transit traffic of people and goods to the Gotthard Pass was the original reason for the establishment of a steamship company, tourist traffic on the lake gained increasing importance in the following decades and has made up the overwhelming majority since the Gotthard Railway opened in 1882. Today, SGV operates a fleet of five historic paddle steamers and 15  motor ships and is integrated into the tariff system for public transport in Switzerland.

In 2018 the company was restructured as SGV Holding AG with the three subsidiaries SGV AG (shipping), Shiptec AG (shipyard) and Tavolago AG (gastronomy).

history

19th century

First statutes of the society, 1836

Registered share for 350 francs of the Lake Lucerne Steamship Company from March 12, 1887

Since the late Middle Ages, there was a transport system in Lucerne and Flüelen with several shipping companies. These guild-like societies in Lucerne included the St. Niklausen Ship Company, which is still in existence today, and other companies in Flüelen and Brunnen , which later arose from competition from the Uri Urinau Society and the Lucerne Pfisternau Society . The traffic on the route to the Gotthard Pass took place between Lucerne and Flüelen across the lake.

As early as 1829, the cantons of Basel and Ticino had been urging the cantons of Lucerne and Uri to put a steamship into operation on Lake Lucerne in order to facilitate Gotthard traffic. On December 17, 1835, the Grand Council of the Canton of Lucerne approved the establishment of a stock corporation for the purpose of building a steamboat on Lake Lucerne . On January 1, 1836, Kasimir Friedrich Knörr (1808–1882) and Joseph Martin Ronca (1781–1871) issued a subscription prospectus for their company. The first steamship, the city ​​of Lucerne , was ordered from Escher Wyss in Zurich and launched in Lucerne on July 29, 1837. The opening voyage took place on September 24, 1837. The traffic developed well, despite initial resistance from the Canton of Uri, which wanted to protect its shipping companies from competition from the steamship. In October 1837 the government of Uri issued a ban on bringing merchant goods to the steamboat in Flüelen, which resulted in a protracted conflict. In 1843, the company acquired a second ship, the St. Gotthard , which was needed for a daily mail connection via the Gotthard. Since 1842, the Gotthard Post has experienced a significant boom with the introduction of ten-seater five-horse wagons for the transport of mail and travelers who made the connection via the Gotthard to Chiasso from Flüelen .

In November 1846 the Urner Landammann Karl Emanuel Müller founded a competing mail steamship company (PDG). This was in the interests of the governments of Lucerne and the original cantons , who were dissatisfied with the von Knörr company, which had made its ships available for federal troop and ammunition transports in 1845 (the time of the Sonderbund ). The new company also wanted to transport mail on more favorable terms. The two steamships for this company were ordered from Ditchburn & Mare in London , as Escher Wyss had contractually agreed not to deliver any ships to rival companies of the Knörrschen company. It was the Waldstätter (1847) and the Rigi (1848). The latter has been preserved as an exhibit in the Swiss Museum of Transport .

The two companies entered into fierce competition, and the existing dispute over transport rights on the lake between the riverside cantons continued. The canton of Uri was not willing to recognize the freedom of navigation on Lake Lucerne. Anton Räber writes in Die Schiffahrt auf dem Vierwaldstättersee (1962) that "real hunts for passengers and races between the ships" took place. The transport law dispute was settled in 1849 when the federal government passed a law that guaranteed free movement on the lake. The competition initially continued in that the two companies tried to undercut each other in terms of price, but in July 1849 they were able to agree on common tariffs with a common timetable.

One of the sister ships Victoria and Switzerland around 1890 in Flüelen

The Knörrsche Gesellschaft and the Postdampfschiffgesellschaft merged with effect from January 1, 1870 to form the United Steamship Company on Lake Lucerne (VDGV) to strengthen their position vis-à-vis other companies that had since been founded. By means of a contract dated July 6, 1870, this company finally merged with the steamship company Lucerne , which was founded in 1869 and which in turn had previously been merged with the steamship company of the Küssnachtersee . The steam ship company Lucerne brought two large paddle steamers, Switzerland (1870) (later Schwyz ) and the Victoria (1870) , into the VDGV. As a result, the entire steamship business on Lake Lucerne was combined in one company.

However, Kasimir Friedrich Knörr, although still on the board of directors of the VDGV, founded the Salondampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft des Vierwaldstättersee, a new competitor company based in Gersau , in 1871 . He ordered the first saloon steamers in Switzerland, the Germania (1872) and the Italia (Schiff, 1872) from Escher Wyss . In the end, however, the VDGV succeeded in acquiring these two ships. The new company was dissolved and Knörr undertook not to found a steamship company on Lake Lucerne any more.

From 1870 passenger shipping on Lake Lucerne, in addition to tourist purposes and local traffic, continued to serve transit travelers via the Gotthard and luggage transport, whereby tourism in the Lake Lucerne area was already of greater importance. During the construction period of the Gotthard Railway , the transport of materials and workers' traffic formed another pillar of shipping. The transport of cattle was particularly important in local traffic.

Passenger numbers VDGV / DGV 1870–1914

After the Gotthard Railway opened in 1882, shipping concentrated mainly on seasonal tourist traffic in the summer months. Due to the loss of transit traffic, the number of passengers initially fell (from 832,064 people in 1881 to 748,825 in 1882), only to exceed the number of 1881 with 859,139 passengers in 1888 and finally more than a million in 1894 to reach. This happened as a result of the increasing expansion of the railway lines around Lake Lucerne and the opening of tourist mountain railways such as the Bürgenstock Railway (1888) and the Pilatus Railway (1889). The VDGV ships served as feeders for these railways. Up to the outbreak of the First World War , the number of passengers carried rose mostly steadily, with only a few slight decreases in individual years. In 1913, the company, which had been known as the “Dampfschiffgesellschaft des Vierwaldstättersee” (DGV) since 1885, had 13 saloon steamers , four half- saloon steamers and four smooth-deck steamers and six motor boats . From 1891 to 1920, the SLA also operated a ferry traffic with the constructed as a screw steamers railway ferry DGV 1 and SLA 2 .

20th and 21st centuries

When the war broke out in 1914, there were no tourists. Only about 20% of the tourist passengers in the pre-war period came from Switzerland; more precise information on the nationalities of the travelers cannot be found in the statistics of this time. The timetable had to be greatly reduced and a period of operating deficits followed that lasted until 1920. From 1921, after a reorganization, the company was able to show operating surpluses again and expand the timetable year after year. The attractiveness of the offers has been increased, among other things, by cheaper group rates and discounts for the morning and midday ships on Sundays and public holidays.

The Pilatus from 1966 scrapped in 2011 and the Mythen from 1931 in Lucerne

In 1931, the DGV built the motor ship Mythen for the first time in its own shipyard. It is the first ship in the world with light metal superstructures . In the DGV shipyard, later known as SGV, nine more motor ships have since been built, four ships prefabricated by other shipyards have been completed and the five paddle steamers have been restored. Since the end of 2008 the shipyard has been operating under the name Shiptec Lucerne .

The Second World War also brought a decline in passenger numbers, albeit less drastically than during the First World War. While 2,100,000 passengers were carried in 1938, the figure was 1,900,000 in 1944. The number of passengers subsequently developed positively again, although after a maximum of 2,700,000 passengers in 1962, when the continuous Lucerne-Stans-Engelberg railway was opened on December 19, 1964, it fell slightly. Since then, rail travelers to Engelberg no longer have to use the ship between Lucerne and Stansstad .

In 1960 the company was renamed "Schiffahrtsgesellschaft des Vierwaldstättersee" (SGV). This renaming stood in the sign of a departure from the steam ships, which were to be gradually replaced by diesel motor ships. According to the SGV commemorative publication on its centenary in 1970, only the flagship City of Lucerne from 1928 and the Gallia from 1913 "as witnesses of past steamship romance should be preserved for future generations" after the completion of their fleet renewal of the then six steamers . However, when in 1970 the paddle steamer Wilhelm Tell , which today serves as a permanent restaurant in Lucerne, was decommissioned, public pressure began to keep the steamers up and running. This increased when the Unterwalden was to be replaced by a motor ship in the mid-1970s . In 1972 the association Dampferfreunde Vierwaldstättersee was founded, which has been successfully promoting the Vierwaldstättersee steamers ever since. With their financial support, all five remaining paddle steamers could be restored. The steamers are in use as planned. In 1991, when a particularly large number of people traveled to the Lake Lucerne area on the occasion of the 700th anniversary celebrations , the SGV carried 3,328,249 passengers. In 2012 there were 2,489,625 passengers.

Today, the SGV is the only public transport company on Lake Lucerne, along with the Beckenried – Gersau car ferry . Smaller companies compete with her in the business with round trips and company trips, for example in Lucerne the St. Niklausen-Schiffgesellschaft (SNG) with six ships and a water taxi and Charles Bucher Seefahrten AG with five medium-sized ships, one boat for 6 –8 people and a boat (driving training ship) for 7 people. In its Shiptec shipyard , SGV not only builds its own ships and maintains its fleet but also carries out orders for third parties. In 2005/06, this included the construction of a new passenger ship for the Greifensee and in 2006 the restoration of the St. Urs , Switzerland's oldest roadworthy steamboat. In addition, from 2011 the shipyard carried out the general overhaul of the paddle steamer Neuchâtel , which had been decommissioned in 1969 and which has been used again in the Three Lakes Region since 2014 . On January 1, 2013, the shipyard became an independent subsidiary, Shiptec AG . A restructuring took place in 2018 through the introduction of a holding structure as SGV Holding AG with the three subsidiaries SGV AG (shipping), Shiptec AG (shipyard) and Tavolago AG (catering). Another subsidiary, SGV Express AG , was founded specifically for the new Bürgenstock shuttle ship . SGV Express AG has no employees of its own and has commissioned SGV AG to operate the ship.

fleet

Current fleet

The current fleet consists of a total of 20 ships: five side wheel steamers and 15 saloon motor ships serving 32 ship stations on the lake. Most of the ships are named after localities, mountains or other geographical objects around Lake Lucerne, for example after the town of Brunnen or the Rütli mountain meadow . As of 2015, the fleet had a total capacity of 11,140 passengers; an expansion resulted in 2017 with the commissioning of the motor ship Diamant (capacity 1,100 passengers) with simultaneous decommissioning of the motor ship Rigi with a capacity of 600 passengers. Since February 2017, a ship was under construction, which in late May was commissioned in 2018 and since then as Buergenstock the hourly connection between Lucerne and Kehrsiten-Burgenstock is traveling. It has a capacity of 300 people.

development

The Wilhelm Tell as a restaurant ship

Trajekt screw steamer DGV 1 loaded with army horses (between 1914 and 1918)

In addition to the five still active paddle steamers, SGV or its predecessor companies had over 22 other steamers over the years, which have since been taken out of service. The steamships of the first decades were built as so-called smooth - deck or single-deck steamers , most recently the Helvetia (1870) . Except for the wheel arches, these ships had no superstructures . From the 1870s on, saloon steamers emerged , which are characterized by superstructures that span a large part of the length of the ship. At the same time, several smooth- deckers were converted into so - called half saloon steamers , with a saloon for the first class being built on the aft deck .

The shell of the very first steamship, the city ​​of Lucerne of the Knörrschen Gesellschaft, was preserved as a service boat until 2005, first as a coal transport ship, then as a bilge water emptying boat with the short name Biebo . The shell of the second ship, the St. Gotthard , is still preserved in a ramming ship for setting station piles. The Rigi of the Postdampfschiffgesellschaft is located in the Swiss Museum of Transport , is exhibited there as the oldest surviving motorized means of transport in Switzerland and has been extensively restored since 2007. The steamship Rhine , which originally operated on the Thames under the name Ben Johnson , found further use, as its shell was used for the construction of the motor ship Waldstätter . This left the service only in 1995 and was scrapped in 2001. The Wilhelm Tell , which today serves as a restaurant in Lucerne, has also been preserved. The other steamers were scrapped, with certain parts remaining, such as the Pilatus steam engine in the Museum of Transport. On the other hand, nothing has been preserved from the luxurious second city ​​of Lucerne , which was rarely used due to its uneconomical operation. The Trajekt screw steamer DGV 1 was sold to Germany a few years after the trajectory traffic was discontinued in 1920. The other trajectory ship DGV 2 initially remained in the possession of DGV, was occasionally used for heavy haulage and finally sold to Seekag Seeverlad + Kieshandels AG , where the ship was named Luzern after being converted into a gravel transport ship in 1963/64 .

In addition to the Waldstätter , the Pilatus (1966), which was in service until 2010 and was to go to a private buyer in 2011, who wanted to transfer it to Venice and convert it into a houseboat, was withdrawn from the SGV's own motorboat designs since 1949 . In July 2011, however, it was announced that the sale had failed. It was then decided to scrap the Pilatus ; for this purpose, the ship was transferred to Rotzloch on September 2, 2011 .

In 2012 a new motor ship built by the Shiptec shipyard of SGV with a capacity of 300 people was put into operation. The 1926 Reuss replaced the sapphire , which is based on a motor yacht . The Reuss was last used for scheduled trips on October 7, 2012. It was sold at the beginning of 2014 to the Egyptian entrepreneur Samih Sawiris , who is having the Shiptec shipyard renovate it and convert it for private use on Lake Lucerne.

The converted Nauen Rütenen , a former freight ship used for group trips (built in 1926, conversions in 1930 and 1985), was taken out of service at the end of 2014, as further use would have entailed high investments due to new regulations for the use of goods ships for passenger transport. SGV sold the hats for the symbolic price of one franc to the subsidiary Shiptec , which will use them as a work ship.

The motor ship Rigi , built in 1955 and with a capacity of 600 passengers, was replaced by a new building in 2017: The Diamant was built in the Lucerne shipyard in 2014 and can accommodate 1,100 passengers. The Rigi ran according to the schedule for the last time on December 31, 2016 and has since been scrapped.

On February 11, 2020, it was announced that the motor ship Mythen would be retired for December 2020.

The following table shows fleet levels between 1870 and 2012 based on years, which represent turning points for the development of the fleet:

year	event	Smooth deck steamer	Half saloon steamer	Saloon steamers	Motor ships
1870	Association of Lake Lucerne Steam Shipping	13 1	-	-	-
1881	last year before the Gotthard Railway opened	9 2	3	2	-
1913	before the outbreak of the First World War	4 2	4th	13	6 3
1970	100th anniversary of the SGV decommissioning of Wilhelm Tell	(1) 4	-	6th	11 (+1) 5
2012		-	-	5	16 (+1) 4

¹ Including two screw steamers

² Including three screw steamers

³ Five petrol motor boats for 50 to 80 people and one diesel motor boat for 180 people

^4thRam ship, former DS St. Gotthard , screw steamer since 1898, conversion to diesel propulsion in 1973/74

⁵Bilge water emptying boat, former DS Stadt Luzern (I) from 1837, retired in 2009

Stations and timetable

Lake Lucerne with the shipping lines

The SGV runs to 32 ship stations on the shore of the lake on schedule. On the Lucerne - Flüelen line, there is an hourly timetable, and on the Lucerne - Küssnacht line every 2 hours. The line to Alpnachstad is not clocked, but the lines are linked at some stations so that many destinations can be reached by changing trains. In addition, other places on the lake can also be served with smaller ships on extra trips. The courses are linked to other public transport offers. The ship stations in Lucerne and Flüelen are located directly at the respective train stations. Several boat stations provide connections to mountain railways, such as the Vitznau-Rigi-Bahn in Vitznau , the Pilatusbahn in Alpnachstad or the funicular from Treib to Seelisberg . At some stations there are connections with Postbuses (as in Beckenried ) or local bus companies.

The following lines operate:

• Lucerne – Brunnen – Flüelen
• Lucerne – Stansstad – Alpnachstad
• Lucerne – Küssnacht
• Lucerne – Kehrsiten-Bürgenstock
• Lake Lucerne Bay (to Meggenhorn)

Winter operation: Gotthard in February 2012

While numerous courses are offered on all lines in the summer months and the steamboats are used extensively, the timetable is reduced in spring and autumn and even more restricted in winter. Year-round connections are offered on the main Lucerne-Brunnen-Flüelen line. In the 2018 winter timetable, there are three daily connections Lucerne-Flüelen-Lucerne as well as various other connections on partial routes. The other lines have not been served for a long time between the end of October and the beginning of April. While the line from Lucerne to Stansstad and Alpnachstad was still of considerable importance for travelers to Stans or Engelberg all year round until the opening of the continuous Lucerne-Stans-Engelberg Railway , the winter rates on this line have been steadily reduced since then and ultimately discontinued. In the winter timetable 1981/1982 there were still two pairs of courses Lucerne-Stansstad-Lucerne, which ran from November to February only on Saturdays and Sundays, in the winter timetable 1982/1983 these courses were also omitted.

Since Christmas 1999, SGV has been using the Uri steamship for winter trips in the normal timetable from Advent to New Year. In 2011, instead of the Uri, the newly restored Unterwalden was used for the first time for the steamboat winter trips, although only tours with mandatory consumption were offered. Instead, motor ships operated in the normal timetable. This has led to anger at the association of steamers friends. Since many ships offer restaurants, other special trips with special buffets are offered all year round.

The official shipping stations clockwise around the lake are:

• Lucerne lake basin: Lucerne Bahnhofquai, Verkehrshaus -Lido, Tribschen, Seeburg, Hermitage, Meggenhorn
• Küssnachtersee: Meggen , Merlischachen , Küssnacht am Rigi , Greppen
• Vitznau Basin: Hertenstein , Weggis , Vitznau
• Gersau Basin: Rotschuo (1998–2009), Gersau , Brunnen SGV
• Urnersee: Sisikon , Tellsplatte , Flüelen, Seedorf , Isleten - Isenthal , Bauen , Rütli
• Gersau Basin: Treib, Beckenried, Buochs , Ennetbürgen
• Vitznau Basin: Kehrsiten - Bürgenstock
• Horwer basin and Alpnachersee: Kehrsiten-Dorf, Stansstad, Alpnachstad, Hergiswil , Kastanienbaum

There is also the Brunnen Föhnhafen station , but it is only approached once per working day in regular SGV traffic and is mainly used as a substitute stop for Brunnen during foehn storms , since the Föhnhafen - as the name suggests - is protected from the south wind and thus the An - and leaving is easier. The car ferry Vierwaldstättersee , which runs from spring to autumn between Beckenried (Niederdorf) and Gersau (Forst), is not part of the SGV.

Freight transport

Up until the middle of the 20th century, freight transport also had a certain importance for the shipping company. After the Gotthard Railway opened, the amount of goods transported halved from 54,815 tons in 1881 to 21,835 in 1882. However, it increased again from 1887 to a maximum of 92,347 tons in 1895, which was mainly due to material transport needed for the construction of the Pilatusbahn , the Brünigbahn and the new Lucerne train station , which opened in 1896 . After that, freight traffic stabilized for a long time in a range of around 25,000 to 30,000 tons per year. For the transport of goods and cattle , Nauen were often towed by the ships of the SGV . In the 1920s, a very clear decline became noticeable (between 1921 and 1928 an average of 12,312 tons per year), the cause of which Fritz Hofer in his work on shipping on Lake Lucerne from 1930 «in the increasing competition in the automotive and Motor ship traffic »sees. In 1969 it was 5,426 tons. Nevertheless, the middle deck of the large motor ships built in the 1960s and early 1970s such as the Gotthard was still used as a cargo hold e.g. B. designed for mail bags , goods carts and also small livestock . From 1978 there were no more animal transports. It was not until the late 1980s that freight traffic was practically completely shifted to the road. The SGV still takes over the transport of luggage in " direct traffic ".

Rates

Edmondson 1st class ticket from 1985, valid for either boat, bus or train and bus

The SGV is integrated into the tariff system for public transport in Switzerland. Offers such as the Half-Fare travelcard, the general subscription or the platform 7 youth card, which allows unrestricted journeys from 7 p.m., are valid on the scheduled ship courses. The Swiss Travel Pass for foreign passengers is also recognized. With InterRail and Eurail tickets, a 50% discount on the fare is granted (as of 2018). However, tickets for the Lucerne / Obwalden / Nidwalden “Passepartout” fare network are not valid on the ships, with the exception of monthly and annual passes between the Lucerne, Hertenstein, Weggis and Vitznau piers. Likewise, SBB bike tickets and bike subscriptions are not recognized , although bicycles are transported for a fee without a transport guarantee . For individual offers, such as round trips on a panorama ship, only a discount is offered for the general subscription, Swiss Pass, etc., but not the free travel that otherwise applies to the scheduled courses.

Most of the larger ships are divided into 1st and 2nd class areas. According to the 2018 tariff, the fares for single journeys without a discount range between 6.00  Swiss francs (2nd class, up to 4  tariff kilometers , e.g. Lucerne – Verkehrshaus) and 69 francs (1st class, up to 45 tariff kilometers, e.g. B. Lucerne – Flüelen). Reductions are granted for return and group tickets .

Other shipping companies in Switzerland

• see list of Swiss shipping companies

literature

• Fritz Hofer: Shipping on Lake Lucerne . Keller, Luzern 1930, OCLC 474621014 ( dissertation Uni Bern , rer. Pol. 1930).
• Anton Räber: The shipping on Lake Lucerne (=  Lucerne through the ages . Volume 25 ). Haag, Lucerne 1962.
• Erich Liechti et al .: Shipping on Lake Lucerne . History and register of ships. Verlag Eisenbahn, Villigen 1974, ISBN 3-85649-021-3 .
• Kurt Hunziker, Heinz Amstad: Vierwaldstättersee - our fleet . Ed .: Shipping company of the Vierwaldstättersee. Dampferzeitung, Luzern 2001, ISBN 3-9522296-0-1 .
• Josef Gwerder: The ship stations on Lake Lucerne . Verlag Die Region, Emmenbrücke 2007, ISBN 978-3-906365-39-8 .
• Kurt Hunziker et al .: Full steam ahead. The five steamships on Lake Lucerne . Ed .: Shipping company of the Vierwaldstättersee. Dampferzeitung, Lucerne 2011, ISBN 978-3-03302891-3 .
• Josef Gwerder: Shipbuilding and shipyard history of Lake Lucerne shipping since 1837 . Verlag Beagdruck, Emmenbrücke 2011, ISBN 978-3-906365-57-2 .

Web links

Commons : Passenger Ships on Lake Lucerne  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• SGV group
• Shipping company of Lake Lucerne (SGV)
• Steamer friends Lake Lucerne

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Annual Report 2018 (PDF) SGV Holding AG. 2019. Accessed December 28, 2019.
2. ↑ Kurt Hunziker et al .: Full steam ahead . The five steamships on Lake Lucerne. Ed .: Shipping company of the Vierwaldstättersee. Dampferzeitung, Luzern 2011, ISBN 978-3-03302891-3 , p. 12-13 .
3. ↑ ^{a b} Annual Report 2018 (PDF) SGV Holding AG. Pp. 4-5. 2019. Accessed December 28, 2019.
4. ^ Anton Räber: The shipping on the Vierwaldstättersee (=  Lucerne through the ages . Volume 25 ). Komm. Eugen Haag, Luzern 1962, p. 3-4 .
5. ^ Hans Stadler: Vierwaldstättersee. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
6. ^ Anton Räber: The shipping on the Vierwaldstättersee (=  Lucerne through the ages . Volume 25 ). Komm. Eugen Haag, Luzern 1962, p. 10 .
7. ^ Anton Räber: The history of shipping on Lake Lucerne . In: Erich Liechti et al. (Ed.): Shipping on the Vierwaldstättersee . History and register of ships. Verlag Eisenbahn, Villigen 1974, ISBN 3-85649-021-3 , p. 5-6 .
8. ↑ Arthur Wyss: The Post in Switzerland . Your history through 2000 years. Hallwag, Bern 1987, ISBN 3-444-10335-2 , p. 141-142 .
9. ↑ Fritz Hofer: The shipping on the Vierwaldstättersee . Buchdruckerei Keller, Lucerne 1930, p. 26 (Diss. Rer. Pol. Bern).
10. ↑ ^{a b c} Anton Räber: The history of shipping on Lake Lucerne . In: Erich Liechti et al. (Ed.): Shipping on the Vierwaldstättersee . History and register of ships. Verlag Eisenbahn, Villigen 1974, ISBN 3-85649-021-3 , p. 7 .
11. ↑ ^{a b} DS Rigi . Swiss Museum of Transport. Retrieved February 2, 2016.
12. ↑ Fritz Hofer: The shipping on the Vierwaldstättersee . Buchdruckerei Keller, Lucerne 1930, p. 21–22 (Diss. Rer. Pol. Bern).
13. ^ Anton Räber: The shipping on the Vierwaldstättersee (=  Lucerne through the ages . Volume 25 ). Komm. Eugen Haag, Luzern 1962, p. 13 .
14. ↑ Urs Kälin: Müller, Karl Emanuel. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
15. ↑ ^{a b} Anton Räber: The history of shipping on Lake Lucerne . In: Erich Liechti et al. (Ed.): Shipping on the Vierwaldstättersee . History and register of ships. Verlag Eisenbahn, Villigen 1974, ISBN 3-85649-021-3 , p. 8 .
16. ↑ ^{a b} Fritz Hofer: The shipping on the Vierwaldstättersee . Buchdruckerei Keller, Lucerne 1930, p. 30–31 (Diss. Rer. Pol. Bern).
17. ^ Anton Räber: The history of shipping on Lake Lucerne . In: Erich Liechti et al. (Ed.): Shipping on the Vierwaldstättersee . History and register of ships. Verlag Eisenbahn, Villigen 1974, ISBN 3-85649-021-3 , p. 8-9 .
18. ^ Anton Räber: The shipping on the Vierwaldstättersee (=  Lucerne through the ages . Volume 25 ). Komm. Eugen Haag, Luzern 1962, p. 14-15 .
19. ↑ Fritz Hofer: The shipping on the Vierwaldstättersee . Buchdruckerei Keller, Lucerne 1930, p. 32–34, 37 (Diss. Rer. Pol. Bern).
20. ↑ Shipping company of Lake Lucerne . Festschrift for the centenary 1870–1970. SGV, Lucerne 1970, p. 42 . - the statement 959,139 in Hofer, p. 49 is a misprint, as can be seen from other tables in Hofer.
21. ↑ Fritz Hofer: The shipping on the Vierwaldstättersee . Buchdruckerei Keller, Lucerne 1930, p. 45–49 and table before (Diss. Rer. Pol. Bern).
22. ↑ Fritz Hofer: The shipping on the Vierwaldstättersee . Buchdruckerei Keller, Lucerne 1930, p. 47 (Diss. Rer. Pol. Bern).
23. ^ Josef Gwerder: The ship stations on Lake Lucerne . Verlag Die Region, Emmenbrücke 2007, ISBN 978-3-906365-39-8 , p. 55, 58 .
24. ↑ ^{a b} Erich Liechti et al .: Shipping on Lake Lucerne . History and register of ships. Verlag Eisenbahn, Villigen 1974, ISBN 3-85649-021-3 , p. 78-80 .
25. ↑ Fritz Hofer: The shipping on the Vierwaldstättersee . Buchdruckerei Keller, Lucerne 1930, p. 55 (Diss. Rer. Pol. Bern).
26. ↑ Fritz Hofer: The shipping on the Vierwaldstättersee . Buchdruckerei Keller, Lucerne 1930, p. 64 (Diss. Rer. Pol. Bern).
27. ↑ Fritz Hofer: The shipping on the Vierwaldstättersee . Buchdruckerei Keller, Lucerne 1930, p. 79-82 (Diss. Rer. Pol. Bern).
28. ^ Anton Räber: The shipping on the Vierwaldstättersee (=  Lucerne through the ages . Volume 25 ). Komm. Eugen Haag, Luzern 1962, p. 28 .
29. ↑ Erich Liechti et al .: Shipping on Lake Lucerne . History and register of ships. Verlag Eisenbahn, Villigen 1974, ISBN 3-85649-021-3 , p. 69 .
30. ↑ Shiptec - company history . Archived from the original on December 27, 2009. Retrieved May 21, 2011.
31. ^ Josef Gwerder: Shipbuilding and shipyard history of Lake Lucerne shipping since 1837 . Verlag Beagdruck, Emmenbrücke 2011, ISBN 978-3-906365-57-2 , p. 232 .
32. ↑ ^{a b} Anton Räber: The history of shipping on Lake Lucerne . In: Erich Liechti et al. (Ed.): Shipping on the Vierwaldstättersee . History and register of ships. Verlag Eisenbahn, Villigen 1974, ISBN 3-85649-021-3 , p. 9 .
33. ^ Official course book of Switzerland . Winter 1964/1965. General Directorate of the Swiss Federal Railways, Bern 1964, p. 174–177 (timetable field 62).
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