Status: Laid Up
Owner: Alan F. Hurst
Area: UK-East Anglia
Acquired by owner 1972 from Rev D. E. Brown, who acquired in 1962 when named THETIS and fitted with a Robey wagon boiler. Ref: LSP May 1963 and Jan 1968, Funnels 73,74 & 75. Reported sunk 2006
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Status: Active use - resting
Owner: John A. Frampton
Website: http://Johnaframpton53@gmail.com
Area: UK-South West
Steam plant removed from Bucephalus Steam Bicycle, it was originally designed to power a Steam Canoe. Mounted on a lift-in bearer, and fitted with a new gas firing system. New piping was made up to suit boat installation, and improvements to fittings were made. Construction was started in April 2020, flotation testing, July 2020, and construction completed in April 2021. Currently frequently in use with outboard motor as boiler is not yet certified, although it is steam able.
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Status: Steaming
Owner: Christopher East
Area: UK-Thames
Previously Sir T Fireball. Fitted out and steam plant fitted by builders for E.H.S. Warner, Hayling Island. c1987 Michael Collings, Cardiff. Acquired c1988. Purchased by KG Hanlon c.1988. Laid up for 20 years. Sold in 2007. Found and purchased by his grandson Christopher East in 2018. Currently undergoing major restoration in Marlow at Wootten's Boatyard. Aim to be steaming early spring 2021. Relaunched March 2023 on the Goring Gap, with all the family.
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Status: Active use
Owner: Paul Self
Area: UK-North East
New launch completely fitted out by Malcolm Proud 2002 - 2022
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Status: Undergoing renovation - Awaiting refit
Owner: Steven J. Harcourt, Wesley J. Harcourt
Website: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgCgOlZwldJuC5wf25u661Q
Area: USA West Coast
Name "Ben My Chree" means 'Woman of my heart' in Manx. John chose this name as his family hailed from the Isle of Man before emigrating to the US. This name has also adorned the transoms of no less than six ships of the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company. Hull is an enlarged version of Panatela from "Steamboats and Modern Steam Lanuches" Commissioned and fitted out by John York of "York Compound" fame with the very first of his engines. In 1990 he removed the steam machinery and refitted with an antique Hicks 10hp gas engine. The engine, boiler, patterns, and drawings were all subsequently sold. The hull was bought by current owner in 2015. The original boiler was located at a friend's house in California. After much detective work, the original was located in engine in possession of Kent Lacey Connecticut. After much negotiating, and with the kindness and understanding of Mr. Lacey, we were able to purchase original engine and reunite the original machinery once again. In process of refitting all machinery and returning her to the water.
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Status: Active use
Owner: Martin Warnock
Area: UK-Scotland
Originally named Lady Marguerita. New boat, designed and entirely fitted out and steam plant installed by owner, Alan Howarth. First steamed 1995 and steamed each year since. Originally fitted with a 1994 Reeves Commander (modified) engine 2" + 2" x 2½", 2 ftc, 2 cbs, 500 rpm, sv, SLRG with 3 blade, 15" x 26" propeller. Replaced 2003. Originally fitted with coal fired VFT built by Alan Howarth at Preston in 1994-95. 150 psi. Shell 16" dia x 31" high, all copper, silver soldered, SS superheater, W.kettle, twin cyl Weir type fp. Replaced 2002. 2011, sold to Stuart Russell. August 2014, sold to R Martin and renamed Bunnahabhain in April 2015. 2017 - Formed part of flotilla accompanying the Queen's 'royal barge' along with Silkie and Vesuvius when she opened new section of Forth & Clyde canal from Kelpies to the Carron river. Also spent week on Lago Maggore in Italy with Magician and Vesuvius. 2018 Appeared on BBC TV 'Grand Tours of Scottish Lochs' on Loch Awe - view result on www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06kfnt1
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Status: No longer a Steamer - Sold to proud new owner
Area: UK-West Midlands
Boat moored at Stafford Boat Club, Staffs and Worchester Canal. New build using steam plant from Radnor. Engine direct drives a 3:1 Fenner gearbox giving approx 600 rpm output to propeller. Boat build took place in/post lockdown1 2020. Boat steamed and test run... propeller may need to be modified to meet canal speeds and engine speeds/steam use.
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Status: Steaming
Owner: Croci Pierre-Edgar
Website: http://vapeur-vulcania.ch
Area: Suisse
A l'origine, le bateau mesurait 10 mètres de longueur . La première machine était : Mills Beaumaris Compound 8CV Trop faible pour le poids du bateau ! En 1984 : installation de la : Escher-Wyss En 1996 , on coupe le bateau au milieu et on le rallonge jusqu'à 11.40 m . En 2010 : changement de chaudière : on supprime La Scotch pour installer la Balson , puis en 2017 , installation de la chauffe au diesel avec un brûleur électrique . Beaucoup de voyages en France , en Belgique , Hollande et à Monaco. Le Vulcania est opérationnel même en hiver sur le lac Léman.
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Status: Steaming
Owner: John Jewsbury
Area: UK-South East
Designed and built for Adian Birtles in 1992. Commissioned at Port Dinorwic 28th August 1993, then regularly steamed every year till laid up in 2001. Acquired by John Jewsbury in August 2008 and extensively re-furbished. Bare wood restoration to topsides and varnished in traditional varnish. All interior furnishings replaced and professionally re upholstered to a very high standard. New boiler chassis and floor fabricated together with new feedwater heater and steam dryer elements by Glyn Lancaster Jones who made the original boiler. Extensively re-plumbed in copper to replace an assortment of stainless additions which had appeared after Adrian sold the boat in April 1999. The new owner, Bill Hattersley, used the boat regularly for a year before laying her up for some 9 years! She was sold to the current owner in 2008. After La Melinite was renovated she has been steamed and used every year since re commissioning in June 2010. Her boiler was retubed early in 2021. Her boiler log is complete and up to date.
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Owner: Ken Henderson & Scott Johnston
Area: UK-Scotland
Believed originally named PUNCH and may have been a sailing vessel as a step for a mast still exists. Rebuilt in Norwich during the 1950’s when named SILVER HERON. The hull was fitted with an internal combustion engine probably at this time. 1980’s came to Harry Watson to partner his LADY ROWENA on Loch Awe. Subsequently sank and became derelict. 1994 acquired by Bob Smith. Completely rebuilt and steam plant fitted 1997-99. First steamed August 1998. Engine believed formerly to be in a launch named MAY. Thames Vintage Boat Club Register No. 28. 2004 acquired by Graham Lyle. 2005 reacquired by Bob Smith. 2012 acquired by Ken Henderson. Dalmore now sails regularly on Loch Katrine, Loch Lomond and occasionally on Windermere.
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Status: In Service
Owner: Roger Calvert
Website: https://www.rogercalvert.me.uk
Area: UK-North
Flying Dutchman shell, never fitted out, acquired by Geoff Calvert in 1970 approximately and fitted out with skeg and propeller for student experiments. Steam plant fitted in 1976 - Stuart Turner 5A engine built by himself from castings and a Merryweather A boiler, ex-Liverpool University. First steamed at the SBA Thames cruise, Radcot, August 1976. Steamed each year (except 1987) since. Multitudinous modifications by the owner over the years, most of which turned out to be improvements. Still the original engine, somewhat modified, but the 4th boiler. Initially based on the Wirral, then for 30+ years in Southampton, now in the South Lakes.
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Status: Undergoing renovation
Owner: Graham Clark
Area: UK-East Anglia
Sold by David Flockhart to current owner July 2022
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Status: Undergoing renovation
Owner: Roger Dunstan & David Cairncross
Area: UK
Built for previous owner Edward Paget-Tomlinson, plant installed by Roger Mallinson, first steamed July 1981. Acquired by Peter Turvey June1990. Laid up summer 2009 awaiting reboilering. Acquired by David Cairncross and Roger Dunstan in 2022. Refurbishment ongoing with intended relaunch in 2024 New boiler pressure vessel manufactured and installed by Steamwell Boilers of Chew Stoke 2023
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Status: Steaming
Owner: Graham Clark
Area: UK
Built new for Adrian Birtles in 2009, 'Mazeppa' passed to Mark Rudall in 2017 and was mainly used on the River Wey navigations or the Thames. Sold in July 2023 she is now based in the York area under the ownership of Dr Graham Clark.
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Status: Active use
Owner: Ian Ridley & David Avery
Area: UK-Thames
New boat built and fitted out to owner’s requirements, steam plant fitted and first steamed 1996. Approx miles steamed 1997 - 80; 1998 - 120.
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Status: Active use
Owner: Bart Smaalders
Area: USA
Rainbow's first incarnation was as a Navy whaleboat, built in 1953. These boats were used to shuttle sailors ashore, from ship to ship mid-ocean, and to effect rescues of Naval airmen forced to ditch their planes. The hull was sold off in the early 1970s, and the diesel engine was replaced with a Semple single cylinder engine making perhaps 5 hp. She was steamed all over the Pacific Northwest by John Campbell, often trailered to interesting areas. Rainbow steamed down the Columbia River Gorge, and steamed from her home port of Orcas Island to the northern tip of Vancouver Island, with her owner camping aboard. She was a fixture at Northwest Steam Society meets. In 2007 she caught fire and was extensively damaged beyond practical repair for a 55 year old hull. Peter Christinson of Shaw Island built a new hull using the bronze castings from the original. Rainbow returned to steaming with a new lease on life. I acquired her when John decided that managing the boat had gotten a bit much in 2017, and we steamed her around the San Juan Islands that year. She has been laid up here on Lopez Island since then; I plan to get here in the water again as soon as I finish my new shop and move my machine tools from California.
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