City of Wehlen (ship, 1890)
City of Wehlen in Schmilka
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The paddle steamer Stadt Wehlen was built in the Blasewitz shipyard in 1890 . The ship was laid with the hull number 27 on the keel . In 1921 the name was changed to Masaryk .
The time until 1921
After commissioning as a smooth deck steamer , the ship drove for the Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company (SBDG). On September 7, 1906, the ship leaked at Großpriesen and sank. Due to the low water level of one meter, it could only be recovered after two days. After six days of repairs, it was back on the road.
In the years 1919 and 1920 the ship was due to difficult economic conditions after the end of World War I launched and in March 1921 together with the Herrnskretschen for 200,000 Czech crowns per vessel to the Prague Steamship Company (společnost Pražská paroplavební) PPS sold. The ship was used here under the name Masaryk . It was named after the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk .
The time after the sale
The ship was put into service on May 21, 1921 for the opening of the new lock in Smíchov under the name Masaryk . It was used on the Prague - Stechovice route . To maintain the good relationship between the PPS and the new Czech government, cruises were organized for members of the government. In April 1922, the Minister of Defense František Udržal and the Minister of Industry, Trade and Commerce, Ladislav Novák, and dozens of members of the Czechoslovak National Assembly took the Masaryk to the site of the planned hydroelectric power plant in Štěchovice .
In 1935 the crankshaft broke. The vessel was then taken out of service and in the port of Smíchov launched . It should serve as a spare parts dispenser or be overhauled. In 1937, however, the PPS decided to wreck the ship.
The steam engine
The steam engine was an oscillating low-pressure two-cylinder twin steam engine with injection condensation with an output of 110 hp. Like the two-flame tube suitcase boiler, it was built by the Saxon Steamship and Mechanical Engineering Company of the Austrian Northwest Steamship Company in Dresden .
Captains of the ship
- Samuel August Füssel 1891-1896
- Arno Julius Junghans 1897
- Friedrich Ernst Kleemann 1898–1899
- Ernst August Bräunling 1900–1902
- Friedrich Eduard Viehrig 1903–1907
- Friedrich August Schaffrath 1908
- Gustav Eduard Fischer 1909–1910
- Friedrich August Schaffrath 1911–1918
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. 96 ( 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 1891 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 8, 2015
- List of paddle steamers of the Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company