1904 German Tug Boat FT Boiler

  Sun 6/30/2013

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1904 German Tug Boiler
Schleppdampfer Woltman

The dragging steamer Woltman is the last sea-usual tractor with Dampfantrieb and a char-fired boiler in Germany.  Woltman was built 1904 on the dockyard of the brothers Saxonia mountain in Rosslau at the Elbe on behalf by current and harbor construction for the financial deputation in Hamburg.

Beside the master planner of the ship still 86 further detail designs are received from the year 1903.
The dragging steamer was intended for co-operation with the excavator XI and was stationed with the water and shipping velvet in Cuxhaven.

Operational areas were the Unterelbe and the Elbmündung. Woltman was until 1976 in use, however for economic reasons was then superseded and sold.
In April 1984 the museum port Kappeln bought the tractor. Subsequently, Woltman was gotten to Hamburg on the dockyard shrub man & sons.
After successful repair of the trunk, the boiler plant and the machine, the dragging steamer could do to 12. January 1994 again in enterprise to be taken.

1994 took over the again created "promotion association dragging steamer Woltman registered association "the tractor.

This had set itself when its establishment the goal of shifting Woltman again into the technical original state of the yearly 1904 of holding the tractor as technical cultural monument in full swing and of making it accessible the public.

By the general condition of the ship a comprehensive restoration was necessary.
The still existing Originalplände made it possible for the organization "youth in work registered association", crew compartment, to reconstruct salons and cabins.
Woltman got a new boiler, which was accurately shared to the original.
The trunk, which became machine equipment as well as all technical mechanisms restored.
The chimney was extended to its old length.

Finally the dragging steamer Woltman went to successful acceptance through the GL and the lake BG in June 2004 in full swing.

Contact/Location

Matt Keenan
CUSHING, WI
715.648.5000