FRANZ I paddlesteamer 1830

[aukepalmhof]

Built as a wooden paddle steamer by the Joseph-Rouston Werft in Florisdorf, Austria for the First Danube Steamship Company (DDSG), Vienna, Austria.
26 July 1830 launched.
Dim. 45.7 x 6.2 (over paddles 13.20m) x 1.1m (draught)
Two Boulton & Watt, Co., side-lever steam engines, 60 hp, speed 9 km/h.
She was the first ship for the DDSG.

17 September 1830 made her maiden voyage from Vienna to Budapest, downstream in 15 hour and 23 minutes and upstream 48 hour and 32 minutes.
1833 A new boiler was fitted in the old on did not supply enough steam.
1841 The wooden hull was replaced by an iron hull on the DDSG Obuda shipyard.

1848 Sold to the Hungarian National Government for 60,000 Gulden, refitted in a gunship on the DDSG yard in Obuda. Armament 8 – 6pdrs, 2 – 12 pdrs and 2 – 7 pdr. guns.
Renamed in MEZAROS.
25 July 1848 commissioned.
19 August 1848 she came in battle against Croatian troops, 13 October 1848 she arrived at Hainburg, but due to early beginning of the winter she was forced to retreat to the DDSG yard in Obuda.

By an attack of Imperial forces under command of Prince Alfred I during the winter of 1848/1849 the MEZAROS was on 05 January 1849 seized.
Renamed in GENERAL SCHLICK.
During the spring of 1849 she came to Vienna, but despite the peace after the victory over Hungary the GENERAL SCHLICK was not disarmed but she became the first unit of the new formed Danube Flotilla.

1850 The new formed Danube Flotilla was based at Pest.
1854 The GENERAL SCHLICK was decommissioned.
1899 Refitted in a barge with No A-7.
Fate unknown. Navicula gives, 1918 lost.

Austria 19791s50 sg1831, scott1114
Hungary 1981 1fo sg3399, scott2705. (the vessel on the stamp in the stamp is the FERENC DEAK.) viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8317

Source: Navicula and various web-sites.

[aukepalmhof]

From a German ship stamp collector I got the following information on the Czechoslovakia stamp issued in 1982 sg 2643, he believes that the paddle steamer on the stamp is the FRANZ I, and comparing the stamp with images of the vessel he is correct she is the FRANZ I.

Parnik, as given by ATA Handbook 117 is wrong, parnik means steamer in the Czech. language.
The year 1818 given on the stamp is not correct at that time the paddle steamer the first vessel on the Danube was the CAROLINA, but she is a completely different vessel from the vessel depicted on the stamp. https://pestbuda.hu/en/cikk/20200713_th ... _years_ago

The following illustrations make it clear that the paddle steamer on the stamp cannot be the CAROLINA, although the year 1818 is given on the stamp, it can only be the FRANZ I., which made its first trip in 1830. The designer of the stamp has taken certain liberties, but the proportions of the ship, the funnel, the masts, the number of windows are consistent, but overall there are more similarities that allow the conclusion that it is the side paddle steamer FRANZ I, which passed Bratislava (then Pressburg) on its maiden voyage in 1830. In the background, you can clearly see the Pressburg Castle.

https://bratislavskerozky.sk/s-parnikom-do-bratislavy/
Czechoslovakia 1982 3k sg 2642, Scott?