FRIEDRICH WILHELM paddle steamer 1825

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Built as a side paddle-steamer by the N.S.B.M. Fyenoord, Rotterdam yard, for the Nederlandse Stoomboot Maatschappij (N.S.M.B.) in Rotterdam.
1825 Launched under the name DE RIJN, probably named after the River Rhine.
Dim. 46.0 x 4.9 x 1.51m (draught).
Powered by a 2 cyl. low pressure steam engine, 500 hp. manufactured by James Watt at Birmingham, U.K.

07 Sept. 1825 sailed for her maiden voyage upstreams under command of Gerh. M. Roentgen in ballast from Rotterdam to Cologne, Germany, where she arrived on 11 September.
Sailed from Cologne on 14 September 1825, with on board the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm and his train to Koblenz and return to Cologne.
During the second part of September on request and trial voyage was made to Kehl and return to Cologne, under command of Roentgen.
27 January 1825, renamed in FRIEDERICH WILHELM, named after the king.

Then in a regular service between Rotterdam and Cologne with passengers and cargo, together with the STAD NIJMEGEN.
Spring 1829 taken over by the Preussisch-Rheinische D.S.G. (P.R.D.G.) in exchange for the bad performing AGRIPPINA.
Renamed by the P.R.D.G. in PRINZ FRIEDRICH, sometimes named PRINZ FRIEDRICH VON PREUSSEN and put in the service Cologne to Mainz.
1831 Bought back by the N.S.M.B. and after a refit, put again in the service between Rotterdam and Cologne.
1846 Scrapped.

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Source Nederlandse Raderboten 1823-1955 by Jan W. Lodder.