Introduction The Steam Boat Association of Great Britain
VIC 32
STEAMBOAT REGISTER - Edition 8, Jan/12
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Owner: N.R. Walker. (SBA member - Scotland Region)
Area: West Coast of Scotland (UK).
Website: www.highlandsteamboat.com/hsh.html
HULLConverted Clyde ‘Puffer’
Built 1943 by R. Dunston & Co. Ltd. at Thorne.
LWL: 66' 10", Beam: 18' 6", Draft: 8', Displacement: 96 gross tons.
Steel
No.411. Straight stem, round stern, black, 4-berth fo’c’sle, six 2-berth cabins in former cargo hold, 2-berth saloon aft, wheelhouse, 6 knots.
ENGINECompound, 10½" + 22" x 14".
Built 1943 by Crabtree & Co. Ltd. at Great Yarmouth.
Valve(s): pv on HP, sv on LP, Gear: Radial.
No.642. 130 IHP, lever-driven feed, air and bilge pumps off LP Xhead, 2 tfc, cbs, separate surface cond.
BOILERVFT.
Built 1943 by Cochran & Co. Ltd. at Annan.
Fuel: coal, Pressure: 105 psi, Grate: 21 sqft.
2-furnace, V riveted shell, 6' 6" dia x 18' high; 5 x 12" horizontal fire-tubes, 12 ton bunkers.
PROP4 blades, 4' 6" dia..
Shaft: 4½" steel.
HISTORYFormer cargo lighter, New to MoWT, to Admiralty 1947. Acquired 1975 in neglected state, restored and converted to Cruise ship. Available for charter, Ref FUNNEL 15, ‘Ships Monthly’, Dec.1979. (Tel: 01546 510232). Steamed every year. Ref: Classic Boat May 1989.
SBA memberUK
 
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(Brian Rutherford) Caledonian Canal, 1999

 

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