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150 Years of Shipping on the Traunsee
The Traunsee was first mentioned in a document as the "Trunseo" in October of the year 909. John Andrews purchased a license dating back to October 16, 1837 for the operation of steam navigation on the lakes of Upper Austria. On May 15, 1839 the paddle wheel steamer "Sophie", named after the mother of the late Emperor Franz Joseph I, was put into commission and operated regularly between Ebensee and Gmunden. Shipping on the Traunsee was passed over to Joseph Ruston after the death of Andrews. On July 28, 1858 the "Elisabeth", built by Ruston and the first paddle wheel steamer with a steel hull, was launched on the Traunsee near Gmunden. Another key Traunsee shipping figure was the master cobbler Rudolf Ippisch. In contrast to the meanwhile obsolete steam drive, he put money on the new possibility of an electric drive for ships and acquired the concession for a shipping concern. Together with several other partners he founded the "Traunsee Motorboat Society" and purchased both electric boats the "Traunstein" and the "Glückauf" ("Good Luck"). The large electric boats "Karbach" and "Sonnenschein" ("Sunshine") followed. In 1918 Ippisch acquired the steam shipping license on the Traunsee from John Ruston II. In further succession, shipping on the Traunsee was handed over to shipping industrialist Karl Eder from Gmunden.
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