City of Lucerne (ship, 1837)

City of Lucerne

Ship data flag  Switzerland other ship names Biebo Ship type Paddle steamer Owner Lake Lucerne Steamship Company, later Lake Lucerne Navigation Company Shipyard Escher Wyss AG , Zurich Launch July 29, 1837 Commissioning September 20, 1837 Decommissioning 1881/2005

Ship dimensions and crew length 37.5 m ( Lüa ) width 5.1 m Side height 2.44 m Draft Max. 1.14 (empty) m   crew 6 men

Machine system machine Two 1-cyl Balancing - steam engines Machine performance 240 hp (177 kW) Top speed 9.77 kn (18 km / h) propeller 2 paddle wheels

Transport capacities Permitted number of passengers 300

The paddle steamer Stadt Luzern (I) was the first steamship on Lake Lucerne in Switzerland . It was procured by the Steamship Company of the Vierwaldstättersee , a predecessor of today's shipping company of the Vierwaldstättersee .

history

The ship was ordered from Escher Wyss in Zurich by the steam shipping company founded by Kasimir Friedrich Knörr in 1835/1836 . The city ​​of Lucerne was a smooth decker 37.5  m long and 5.1 m wide. It had a crew of 6 and offered space for 300 people. In addition, ten tons of goods could be transported. The Balancing - steam engine came from Manchester . Its power was 40 hpnom , which corresponds to approximately 240 hp . Escher Wyss built the ship in an improvised shipyard in Lucerne. After being launched on July 29, 1837, the city ​​of Lucerne was put into operation on September 20. The maiden voyage took three hours from Lucerne to Flüelen .

In 1838 the ship was equipped with a mast and sails, which were probably removed again during a renovation in 1849, as it soon became clear that there was no need for them.

Since 1872 only goods traffic has been carried out with the city ​​of Lucerne . In 1881 she was decommissioned and, with the superstructure dismantled, still used as a tugboat. In 1888 it was converted to a screw drive with a 2-cylinder compound steam engine . Since a major overhaul in 1903, the ship was mainly used as a coal feeder for the steamships, since 1924 with a crude oil engine instead of the steam engine. Since the conversion of the steamships to oil firing meant that coal was no longer required, the ship was converted into a bilge de-oiler in 1963 . It was now called Biebo (bilge water emptying boat ) and was used as a service ship until 2005. In 2009 the Biebo was retired.

Later ships called Stadt Luzern on Lake Lucerne were the Stadt Luzern , which was scrapped in 1925, and the steamship Stadt Luzern , which is still in operation .

Incidents

After the wheel shaft broke, the city ​​of Lucerne had to be towed by the St. Gotthard in 1862 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{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. 18-19 .
2. ↑ History of Steam Shipping ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on flueelen.ch 
3. ↑ Heinz Amstad et al .: Vierwaldstättersee - our fleet . Dampferzeitung, Luzern 1987, p. [67] .
4. ↑ 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. 16 .
5. ↑ Annual report of the Board of Directors of the Lake Lucerne Shipping Company for the year 2009 ( Memento of the original of December 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ; PDF; 7.4 MB) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 33; Retrieved December 29, 2011