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#HMVS CERBERUS
… rld's first turret armed battleship. Also the wooden hulled steamers built in WW11 .Never used then burned out and sunk to form a nature reef in the Potomac River, U.S.A.
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Newby7
… s are kits but I'm building 2 scratch the first is a paddle steamer a likeness to the Maid of the Loch the 2nd is my own concept of a monitor both have been on the water but still need work. RICK
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Gannet 15cc
Hi Martin, thanks for your reply, yes we have a great steam loco engineering club next to the model boat club I attend, so intend taking the old Gannet along one day to let them have a look and hopefully one of the guys will be able to fabr …
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It's a sad day!.
Martin you do have a way with words, I like it!, yes, and steam locomotives run on at least ten times the pressure of a steam driven boat. Happy memory's of the old New Brighton lake, my nan and mum would take me over from Liverpool on the …
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It's a sad day!.
… idering you can't run a pressurised boiler without a Vulcan steam certificate, there is no justification for banning steam, like New Brighton has. Mind you, when I saw what a silly little puddle they'd been left after the new developments o …
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Bristol pilot cutter mascotte
Hope you can soon 'get steam up' again Ron. Can't wait for the sailing video!! All the best, cheers Doug
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It's a sad day!.
… ok beautiful though https://www.google.com/search?q=cheddar+steam+plant&client=firefox-b&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=hgHf4W8Mx5TweM%253A%252CK9fpZCI-1A41gM%252C_&usg=__TY4z2E-Z9hHEh9ynGUFviiAxHeU%3D&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi-x5iIz5nbAhViCpoKHRC1D …
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It's a sad day!.
Our "Imara" Tug has a cheddar steam plant, I might swap it for the motor and batteries it currently has. I can remember as a small child at a pool called the apex pool by Brean Sands. when a large power boat with a big KMB engine run up the …
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It's a sad day!.
… n use a computer as I should. Norman. Small foot note guys, steam also is discouraged if not banned by some model boat clubs now because of the pressurised boiler risk, yes I know health and safety gone mad.
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It's a sad day!.
… ough) There were plenty of IC models plus one guy who had a steam powered trawler and he was busy stoking the thing with pine chips to get steam up. As I remember a beautiful boat. Maybe the way forward is steam????
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It's a sad day!.
… started making a coal fired traction engine instead. (make steam not war!!) Stephen
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MODEL ENGINEERING and MODELLING EXHIBITION 2018
… t a good few boat related parts as well. There were lots of steam related stalls serving the model traction engine and steam train community, however the show of boat clubs was very disappointing (only 3) anybody know why? Still I had a gre …
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Our boating water
… revious questions: There are no restrictions on using IC or steam just don't collide with any of the regulars! The big problem here is the wind, last Sunday was glorious but the water was very choppy and even the big tugs shipped some water …
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deepdivers Rescue tug - Assurance class?
… ironde, Bordeaux. L114.75’. B27.75’. 672grt. 1000ihp 3cylTE steam engine. Armament 1x20mm AA, 2xMG. 1938 Delivered to French Navy. 19-6-1940 Arrived Plymouth. 3-7-1940 Seized and Req by RN. 9-1940 Based Devonport. 0-1940 Based at Aberdeen. …
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Unknown
Looks like it could be a Thames Steam Tug, I'm not sure ! I have just acquired this lovely hull and I am not sure of it's build or origin. It is fibreglass and is 57" (1450mm) LOA X 14.5" (370mm) Beam. It has a very basically built superstr …
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Unknown
If I'm not mistaken it looks like the flying kestral steam tug that if I remember correctly it was a free plan in model boats magazine
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Help Needed new Builder Billings St Canute
… d the plank benders before richard i have made my own plank steamer to soften the planks for bending using a wallpaper stripper with a length of copper pipe fixed to the end to place the planks in works a treat may i remind you richard i no …
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HMS HOOD by Trumpeter
… a nebuliser to agitate the water molecules to make a mist (steam)I now get mine from https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New Ultrasonic Mist Maker Fogger Water Fountain Atomizer Air Humidifier 24V. Hope I got the link correct. it is powered by 24v …
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HMS HOOD by Trumpeter
… at the business end. First: it takes a little while to get 'steam up', second at best it produces whisps of smoke, and white so it looks more like steam. Have experimented with 'additives', e.g. graphite, but have not yet achieved real blac …
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WTF
… rom starboard has right of way. Only exception; Sail Before Steam!
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Fairmile D 1/24 Scale Build
… dog boat as I am thinking of doing the same (when my Thames steam launch is eventually finished....!). One reason that I am considering this is that my headmaster, when I was at Maidenhead Grammar School in the 1960's, was a former skipper …
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Just getting started
… ll of HMS Kent. As a break from constructing a 3 1/2” gauge steam locomotive I built the twin cylinder oscillating engine for the steam launch Miranda by Basil Harley (first published in 1983) so thought I had better build the launch as wel …
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Thurl pin rack
I am building the Lady T steam tug. The drawing says that the halyards go to the Thurl pin rack, I have looked for images of these on google in order to make some and only come up with cycle racks for cars, but I have found belaying pins, w …
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Thurl pin rack
… s on pilot gigs !" ... Can't imagine anyone trying to row a steam tug though!!! Before long we'll be better than Wiki Keep it up folks
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Set of bench lightweight rolls
… have a width of 9inchs and I used them when I was building steam locos, ideal for lightweight brass, I have not used them for some time and have been well greased when not in use.. They are very heavy so collection would be best. Looking f …
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1st build, templates
Hi Mark, Dampfgerd (= 'SteamGerd') is dead right! We need more info. (I recognise the typical German sentence construction and word order though Kein Problem Gerd, es geht mit genau so anders herum! ) Mark; we need more info about what you …
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Billings Kongeskibet Dannebrog #410
£7? How do you do it? Lovely steam yacht. One very similar to that one came into Weymouth harbour in the 60s and we cleaned the barnacles off her hull, trying to remember what it was called. The Channel island steamers made a hell of a nois …
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Free assorted plans
… ed plans here and some cad dwg format drawings. From paddle steamers to fast motor boats http://www./boottekeningen/