CZECH 50 Korun Silver coin Steamship Bohemia

Czechoslovakia Kčs  50 Korun

CZECH 50 Kčs Korun Silver coin Steamship Bohemia, 150th anniversary of the run of the first Czech steamship Bohemia, 1991



1841 The Brit J Andrews the founder of the Wiener Donau-Dampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft got a concession for the founding of a passenger steamship company at Prague for the river Moldau and Elbe, the connection between Prague and Dresden. The Prager Dampfschiffahrtsgeselschaft was then founded, and by J Ruston the first wooden paddle steamer was built by Rustonka at Karolinenthal near Prague. 01 May 1841 launched under the name BOHEMIA. Dim. 38.17 x 4.9 (hull) x 0.42m. draught. Space to carry 140 passengers. Powered by a steam engines, manufactured by W.Penn of Greenwich, U.K., 30 nhp. After completing she sailed on 23 May from Prague, downstream the River Moldau bound for Dresden. When in 1851 the railway connection between Prague and Dresden was ready the BOHEMIA together with two other ships was sold to the Sächische Dampfschiffahrtgesellschaft at Dresden. For this company she was used on the River Elbe till 1856, when she was broken up. Her engines were fitted in a new steamer the STADT MEISSEN, in 1873 renamed PILLNITZ and broken up in 1883.