STADT LUZERN paddle steamer 1873

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The side paddle steamer STADT LUZERN was the first steamboat on Vierwaldstättersee (Lake Lucerne) in Switzerland.
Built on a makeshift yard of Escher Wyss AG, near Froschenburg for the Dampfschiffahrtgesellschaft des Vierwaldstättersee, later this company was renamed after one of the founders Knorrische Dampfschiff Gesellschaft.
1836 Keel laid down.
29 July 1837 launched as the STADT LUZERN.
Tonnage 115 dwt in empty condition, dim. 37.5 x 5.1 x 2.44m. draught 1.14m empty
Powered by two 1-cyl.balancier steam engines manufactured in Manchester U.K., 40 nhp, speed 9.77 km/h.
Passengers 300, crew 6.
A flush-decked ship which could carry 10 tons cargo.

20 September 1837 made her maiden voyage from Luzern to Flüelen; she made this passage in three hours.
1838 Was she fitted out with a mast and sails, and her funnel lengthened, the mast and sails were around 1849 removed while there was no need for was
1840/41 The boiler strengthened, 1849 rebuild.
1872 Refitted in a cargo vessel and her boiler renewed.
May 1881 out of service and her steam engine, boiler and paddlewheels removed, where after she was used as a towing barge.
1888 Fitted out with a new 2-cyl.compound steam engine which drove a screw.
Then used as a coal bunker boat for the steamships on the lake.
1924 Fitted out with an oil-engine.
When the coal steamers were converted in oil fired steam ships there was not any need for coal, and the STADT LUZERN was in 1963 rebuilt in bilge water collecting vessel and renamed BIEBO.
Till 2005 in use as a bilge water collecting craft.
2009 Taken out of service.
2013 Most probably still around but can not find anything on her.

Switzerland 1986 45c sg1108, scott?

Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadt_Luzern_(1837). Navicula.