Winkelried (ship, 1824)

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Winkelried
Le Winkelried, paquebot a vapeur.png
Ship data
flag SwitzerlandSwitzerland (Swiss flag at sea) Switzerland
other ship names

Le Winkelried , Winkelried I.

Ship type Paddle steamer
Owner until 1835:
Enterprise du Winkelried
from 1835:
Compagnie Genevoise des Bateaux à vapeur réunis
Shipyard Mauriac , Bordeaux
Launch 1824
Whereabouts 1842
Ship dimensions and crew
length
30.5 m ( Lüa )
width 9.5 m
Machine system
machine Low pressure balancing steam engine
Machine
performance 		30 HP (22 kW)
Top
speed 		7.83 kn (15 km / h)
propeller 2 paddle wheels
Transport capacities
Permitted number of passengers 300

The Winkelried , sometimes also Le Winkelried or Winkelried I , named after Arnold Winkelried , was the second steamship on Lake Geneva .

history

After the success of the Guillaume Tell , a second competing company to operate a steamship was founded in Geneva on August 15, 1923 . The Enterprise de Winkelried acquires a ship from Mauriac in Bordeaux that is much larger than the Guillaume Tell , also built by Mauriac . The steam engine comes from England. The assembly of the Winkelried was overseen by Henri Dufour , who became a general in the Swiss Army during the Sonderbund War . The construction costs amounted to 125,000 francs . The launch took place on July 14, 1824.

From 1829 the Enterprise de Winkelried formed a joint venture with the Société du Bateau à vapeur le Guillaume Tell , the owner of Guillaume Tell , which merged the two companies into the Compagnie Genevoise des Bateaux à vapeur réunis in 1835 .

The ship was taken out of service and demolished in 1842.

technology

The 30 m long ship was a smooth deck steamer with a wooden hull that had no superstructures on the main deck other than the wheel arches. It was probably powered by a low-pressure steam engine with a balance . The ship could carry 300 people.

Web links

Commons : Winkelried  - Postcards of the Winkelried built in 1824

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jean-François Bergie: Lake Geneva. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  2. ↑ a b c d Meister, Gwerder, Liechti: Shipping on Lake Geneva: Les grands bateaux du lac Léman . Springer, 2013, ISBN 978-3-0348-6457-2 , pp. 26 ( google.com ).