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Built by Escher Wyss & Cie. at Zurich, Switzerland, re-assembled at Luzern,
from March 1901 and launched on November 12th of same year.
Length 62.00
metres - breadth 6.8 / 15.5 m
Engine : Compound diagonal : 700 / 1200
x 1250 mm : 650HP : by Escher, Wyss
Speed : 26.3 km/h (14.8 knots)
Entered service in on May 18th 1902, one year after
her Sulzer-built fleet-mate as her engine had been displayed at the
International Exhibition in Paris.
Wheelhouse added in 1920
Converted
to oil firing in 1949.
Converted in 1961 to allow the funnel and wheelhouse
to be retracted and masts lowered to allow passage under the new Aschereggbrucke
into the Alpnachersee
This included a fixed canopy over the after upper deck
which radically changed her appearance.
Provisionally retired after the
1975 season but retained as cover until the end of 1977 pending final withdrawal
Saved
after a high-profile campaign by the Dampferfreunde Vierwaldstattersee and an
extensive rebuild was commenced in 1982
Much of the upper deck enclosed aft
of the funnel to create comfortable restaurant facilities.
Reentered public
service on May 15th, 1985.
After the end of the 2008 season she retired to
the SGV dockyard for a major overhaul reappearing for the 2011
season rebuilt to reflect her pre-1961 appearance
Above : Detail of the "new" Unterwalden - taken on May 7th 2011, on the occasion of her special "return to service" cruise. Many thanks to Enrico Crosti for the use of his photo.
Above : Unterwalden emerged from a two year reconstruction in 2011
and is seen above on her first public cruise on
14th May in a photo kindly supplied by Nadia Joehr.
Click
here for more of Nadia's photos from the celebratory SGV fleet cruise
Above : Unterwalden (1902) at Vitznau in 2008, her last season before her life-prolonging major overhaul.
Above : Unterwalden seen against the dramatic backdrop
of Lake Lucerne scenery in 2001, before her reconstruction.
Click here to look around the pre-reconstruction Unterwalden
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A close-up of Unterwalden at Luzern in
1988 |
Heading back to Luzern and calling at Buochs in 2001 |
With mast and funnel retracted to pass under the Aschereggbrucke......... |
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.....Unterwalden is the only paddler now able to reach Alpnachstad |
Deep in the "Kajute" there is a display of the SGV fleet |
There are also interpretative panels about the gleaming engines. |
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