Siegfried

[shipstamps]

The 40 pf. stamp shows the steamship Siegfried, built in 1886 by Von Moller and Holberg. She had a retractable funnel for lowering when going under bridges. At work until 1967, she was then the oldest and last of the Berlin steam vessels. Her length was 31.2m, and breadth 5.3 m. and she had a 291-passenger capacity.
SG B468 Sea Breezes 4/75

[D. v. Nieuwenhuijzen]

Built in 1886 by Möller & Holberg, Stettin, #275, (Oderwerke Maschinenfabrik und Schiffbauwerft, A.G. Grabow) orginally for Stettiner Lloyd, in 1889 delivered to Spree-Havel Dampfschiffahtrs Geselschaft as KAISER FRIEDRICH III.
Passenger ship, Loa:31m. Lbpp:29m. B:4,81m. Boa:5,15m. D:2,50m. Draught:1,40m. 2 expansion engines each 65 hp. 17½ km/h. pass:291.
After WW I renamed SIEGFRIED, in '34 owned by Reederei Griese, in '45 after repair of the war damage back in service.
In '65 in charter for Stern & Kreisschiffahrt, service Tegel - Glienicker Brücke, '68 laid up in Tegel. In '87 to the Museum für Verkehr und Technik, Berlin, restored and came into service again in '94.
She is the last Berlin coal fired steam ship.
(Deutsche Bundespost Berlin 1975, 40 pf. StG.B468)
Historic Ships, Norman J. Brouwer + internet.