Harbour Service Launches

Hi All,

Indeed, a lot of boat for 17 grand! hope as ever she goes to another good home.

 

John

I have to agree about the girlie thing, when my daughter was a young ster she alway's managed to charm her way onto thing's or into area's not mormally accessable, with me tagging behind of course! Napier Deltic's had a nice exhaust sound to them from what I can remember, although the one's I worked on were on a Ton Class around the 1960's and every time we opened them up you had to duck out of the way as large lumps of carbon would fly out of the stack after the engine's had  a period of slow running. They were fine when they were working but pig's when not, the starting proceedure had to be strictly adhered to before banging them off with the cartridge start which is most probably why I spent most of my time on Steam job's until I had to go back to  oil engine's when steam more or less disappeared off the ocean's, but it will come back!

Did B.R. use cartridge starters or the electric motor as a starter

I do believe that they used both - there were two classes that used the Deltic - the famous 55's and a 'Baby Deltic' that used just one engine on a Bo-Co chassis

In the clas 55s they were started on an eletric starter after hand priming by baring them over first. The baby deltic was never a sucess. It was the tractive effort to weight ratio of the class 55s that made them so sucessfull, that and the fact that they were effectivly self rescuing as it was unusual for both units to fail at the same time. I also remember getting an ear bashing from "the domestic authority" because we were stood at the side of 55015 Tulyar when the throttel was opened and the nice new white top became a spotted white top. That really did cost!

Pushback, thanks for the info about the plans. Billy will find them helpfull and I am determined after recent events, that 506 will come back and be restored to service condition; but the first thing is to get the surveyor to pass her for the trip to the UK. Billy has really got his work cut out for that and largly on his own.

Like I keep saying if anyone wants to go for a working holiday at their own expense he has accomodation avaliable and will be happy to see you there, just let us know when you are going.