Introduction The Steam Boat Association of Great Britain
Grace
STEAMBOAT REGISTER - Edition 8, Jan/12
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Owner: M. Rudall. (SBA member)
Area: (UK).
HULLOpen launch
LOA: 20', Beam: 6' 2".
Wheel-steered, seats 10 and has a Windermere kettle of appropriate size and a Lunkenheimer chime whistle with which to entertain the grockles.
ENGINEDesign: Stuart Turner, 6A.
BOILERVFT.
Built 2006 by TRS Boiler Makers.
Fuel: coal, Pressure: 150 psi.
SBA approved design, 24" diameter, all steel construction. Kcond but can exhaust direct to funnel if required.
PROP
HISTORYGrace was launched on 15 July after a 16 month restoration and is now running on the Wey out of Guildford.
She is an all wooden, former motor launch.
Bought by the late Tony Turner she was christened ‘Nirimba’ and converted to steam with a Stuart Turner 6A compound and WT boiler which featured internal thimble tubes over a Lune Valley type paraffin burner. Tony kept and used her on Frogmore Creek, South Devon.
She was bought by Mark Rudall (Farnborough) in February 06 without boiler and in very run-down condition.
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