Csillag Miklós - Varró József: „Franz I” a Császári-Királyi Szabadalmazott Első Dunagőzhajózási Társaság első gőzhajója (A Közlekedési Múzeum Közleményei 3. Budapest, 1968)
A rekonstruált „FRANZ I" nevű gőzhajó
by dr. M. Csillag and J. Varró A short representation about the dissertation entitled "Franz 1" the first steamship of the "First Patented Imperial and Royal Danube Steamshipping Co." The introduction emphasizes that up to the present it could not make a technical model about the steamship named "Franz I", because it was no kind of a reliable technical documentation for that purpose. Therefore it was needed to reconstruate on the evidence of the available data the designs of the steamship. At present on the basis of the received reconstruction plan the making of the model is going on. I. The chapter entitled "The position ot the navigation before the building of the steamship named ''Franz I* " acquainted with the position of the navigation especially that of the Danubian navigation towards the beginning of the XIX. century, while still the uphill going ships are towed by men or animals from the riverside. z. "The history of the building and the further fate of the steamship named Franz I", entitled chapter briefly refers to the steamship buildings at the beginning of the XIX. century in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and those economic and political causes, which has stimulated the Austrian government and the same time count István Széchenyi the great Hungarian pioneer of the Danubian navigation to the introduction of the steam navigation presents the forming of the "First Patented Imperial and Royal Danube Steamshipping Co." as well as the history of the steam navigation patent, which granted to the English shipbuilders, John Andrews and Joseph Prichard on the part of the Austrian emperor. This chapter introduces to the circumstances of the building the first steamship named "Franz I." and was finished in the year 1830, the trials of the ship, the orderly handle traffic, the publication published in the press about the ship, later the successive replacement of the original boiler, machine and wooden hull and at last that of the name of the ship. This latter cause was happened in the year 1848. 3. The chapter entitled "The description of the steamship named Franz I." acquainted with the explored contemporary descriptions. 4. "The representational illustrations ot the steamship named Franz I." entitled chapter describes and shows to the greatest extent in photocopy that contemporary representations, which complete the contemporary descriptions and give a good aid to the compilation of reliable data. 5. The chapter entitled "The reconstructed steamship named Franz I." on the basis of the recapitulated determined technical and dimension data of the previous chapters, describes the reconstructed "Franz I." and demonstrates the most important photocopy among the reconstruction drawings.
