De Zeeuw
Paddle steamer built 1824. L112’ B13’ Steam engines 50hp. Paddle wheels 12’ diam each with 15 oak paddles. Owned by Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maatschappig. St Thomas & Princ NC (LB 15/15-113)
July 31, 2008
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I am now doing a research on the ’steamboat de Zeeuw’ - I would be very grateful if you can let me see the stamp with ’steamboat de Zeeuw’
- or could you please tell me the price if you are going to see it? Thanks!
Comment by Constanze Lee — December 28, 2008 @ 3:01 pm
The wooden paddle steamer DE ZEEUW was built by W&J Hoogendijk at Capelle a/d IJsel, Netherlands for the Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij (NSMB) in Rotterdam.
Tonnage 71 tons. Dim. 112 x 16 x 3.8ft. (draught).
Powered by a 2-cyl. steam engine of 50hp., manufactured by John Cockerill at Seraing, Belgium.
Diameter of paddle wheels 12 Rijnlandse feet.
Accommodation for 120 passengers, crew 23.
1823 Completed. Building cost 80.000 Dutch guilders.
She was the second ship built for the NSMB.
Her maiden voyage was under command of G.M. Roentgen, one of the founders of the Van Vollenhoven Dutihl & Cie., which shortly thereafter was renamed in Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij (NSMB).
G.M. Roentgen was also the designer of the vessel.
26 October 1823 she sailed from Rotterdam for her maiden voyage upstream on the River Rhine, she came so far as Bacharach, Germany where she arrived on 12 November 1823, thereafter the current was to strong to make any headway.
Thereafter used in the passenger-cargo service between Rotterdam and Cologne, and sometimes to Antwerp.
1836 Was she lengthened to about 44 meters and got three masts.
28 April 1841 laid up.
06 January 1843 sold for scrapping.
Source: Radarboten by J,W, Lodder.
Comment by Auke — December 28, 2008 @ 11:12 pm