Lotschberg (Loetschberg)
Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 9:26 pm
LOTSCHBERG (not LOETSCHBERG)
Paddle steamer, operator BLS Interlaken, Built 1914 Escher Wyss, Zurich, 260 tons (displacement), 55.6m x 6.8/12.8m, 900 passengers.
Machinery, compound diagona1; 450hp, 25,8km/hr. Route Interlaken-Brienz
The LoTSCHBERG is the only paddlesteamer on the scenic Lake Brienz.She sails twice a day from Interlaken to Brienz the lower terminus of the steampowered Briener Rothorn railway. She had a green hull prior to 1967 and then until 1979 a pink hull, but now sports the white hull of the other Swiss paddlers. Converted to oil firing about 1967,and the midships section was glassed-in during the sevenies.
Because she sails astern down the River Aare from the lake to Interlaken East station, she is fitted with a bow rudder and a second wheel aft.
Article by IDUHAUT and published in Log Book August 1992.
Detail from the book "Steamships of Europe" by Alistair Deayton.
Switzerland SG952ms
Paddle steamer, operator BLS Interlaken, Built 1914 Escher Wyss, Zurich, 260 tons (displacement), 55.6m x 6.8/12.8m, 900 passengers.
Machinery, compound diagona1; 450hp, 25,8km/hr. Route Interlaken-Brienz
The LoTSCHBERG is the only paddlesteamer on the scenic Lake Brienz.She sails twice a day from Interlaken to Brienz the lower terminus of the steampowered Briener Rothorn railway. She had a green hull prior to 1967 and then until 1979 a pink hull, but now sports the white hull of the other Swiss paddlers. Converted to oil firing about 1967,and the midships section was glassed-in during the sevenies.
Because she sails astern down the River Aare from the lake to Interlaken East station, she is fitted with a bow rudder and a second wheel aft.
Article by IDUHAUT and published in Log Book August 1992.
Detail from the book "Steamships of Europe" by Alistair Deayton.
Switzerland SG952ms