Jura (ship, 1854)
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Switzerland Bavaria | |
Name | Jura |
Owner |
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Builder | Escher-Wyss, Zürich |
In service | 7 November 1854 |
Fate | sunk in 1864 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Merchant ship |
Type | Paddle steamer |
Length | 46.3 m |
Beam | 10.25 m |
Draught | max. 0.9 m |
Installed power | 45 hp (33 kW) |
Propulsion | Steam engine driving 2 paddle wheels |
Speed | 10 kn (19 km/h) |
Capacity | 400 |
The Jura was a wooden, flush deck, paddle steamer, originally built for service on Lake Neuchâtel, but which was sold after seven years to work on Lake Constance, and sank in 1864 after a collision with the Stadt Zürich.
History
The Jura was built in 1854 by the Maschinen Fabrik
In 1861, the ship was put up for sale and purchased by the
Sinking
On 12 February 1864, the Jura set sail on a routine service from Constance via Romanshorn to Lindau. Around 11 a.m., and despite having a fog lookout, signal horns and an attempt at taking avoiding action, it could not prevent a collision with the Stadt Zürich off Münsterlingen. The bow of the Stadt Zürich ripped the Jura’s forecastle off. The person manning the fog lookout of the Bavarian ship was crushed and a ship’s boy had his arm torn off.[1] Within just four minutes, the Jura sank. The rest of the ship‘s crew and passengers were rescued by the Stadt Zürich.[2]
Because the Stadt Zürich had sunk the Ludwig in a collision less than three years before, and, only a few months after sinking the Jura, had collided with the Stadt Lindau in Lindau Harbour, the ship was especially unpopular in Bavaria.[3]
Discovery of the wreck
In February 1953, Ludwig Hain was looking for a crashed
From the wreck of the Jura were salvaged the 47-kilogramme ship's bell, bottles, a manometer and the name of the ship.[5]
Recovery plans and industrial monument
A recovery of the ship would be attractive because the Jura is the oldest surviving steamship in the world. It would make available a ship of the late Biedermeier period, an era from which there are hardly any surviving technical monuments.
The Lake Constance Historical Navigation stiftung (Historische Schifffahrt Bodensee) with its headquarters in the Swiss village of Tägerwilen has plans to recover and restore the ship. The cost is estimated at around 3.5 million euros, because the ship’s wooden hull and folding chimney are in a poor condition. Sports divers are partly to blame, as is the aforementioned dumping of mud on the wreck, damage as a result of regular shipping and fishing, and, of course, the passage of time.
On 7 December 2004, the governing council of the
The restored or even reconstructed ship, together with the
Exhibitions
- 31 August 2016–present: Geschichten vom Seegrund. The Dampfschiff Jura. at the Kreuzlingen Maritime Museum .[7]
References
- ^ "Bayerischer Kurier" (Google Books). 8. Jahrgang, Nr. 47 (in German). 1864-02-17. Retrieved 2013-11-21.
- ^ "Volksbote" (Google Books). No. 37 (in German). 1864-02-16. Retrieved 2013-11-21.
- ISBN 3-927484-00-8p. 34
- ^ Hans Gerber. "Technische Angaben & Suche" (in German). Archived from the original on 2013-09-25. Retrieved 2013-11-21.
- ^ Michèle Vaterlaus: Die Glocke der gesunkenen Jura taucht wieder auf. In: Südkurier, 27 August 2016.
- Kanton Thurgau. pp. 97–98. Archived from the original(PDF; 84 kB) on 2015-05-18. Retrieved 2013-11-21.
- ^ The Maritime Museum in Kreuzlingen