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Owner: Museum of the Broads. (SBA member - East Anglia Region)
Area: Norfolk Broads (UK).
HULLOpen launch
LOA: 27', LWL: 26', Beam: 6' 4", Draft: 1' 6".
Double-skin teak on oak
Straight stem, transom stern, black, varnished deck and interior, 9 mph.
ENGINE2-crank Quadruple Expansion, 2½" + 3½" + 4½" + 6" x 3½".
Built 1895.
Design: A size.
Valve(s): sv, Gear: SLRG.
No.703. 2 tfc, cbs, Xhead driven feed and air pumps, 350 rpm, Kcond.
BOILERVFT.
Built 2005.
Fuel: coal.
PROP3 blades, LH, 18½" x 36".
Shaft: 1¼" SS.
HISTORYHull found by Rupert Latham 1974 when derelict, restored 1975-6, plant installed 1977 all by R. Latham. First steamed 1977.Acquired by John Watson & W. Le Neve-Bower 1982. 1988 presented to museum. (Engine originally built for SS yard No.390, launch for Steam Yacht CECILE)
Previously fitted with 1895 Kingdon type VFT. No.D1/2A 145. Riveted shell, 136 x 1.1/8" O/D tubes 14" long, 2 cwt bunker, belt driven FD fan, injector, 4 gall fw tank.
SBA memberUK
 
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(David Harding) SBA Rally, Horning, 1991

 

 

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