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Mess Deck: General Section => Tugs and Towing => Topic started by: Alan Spencer on May 01, 2018, 03:13:59 pm

Title: What sort of steam tug is she please
Post by: Alan Spencer on May 01, 2018, 03:13:59 pm

She is 56" long and is obviously a tug hull. The superstructure is very crude and is like something out of Thomas the Tank Engine, not appropriate. I am guessing she is 1/24 scale and would be 112 feet LOA. She is fibreglass and very well moulded, HELP !

Title: Re: What sort of steam tug is she please
Post by: Martin (Admin) on May 01, 2018, 05:39:14 pm

 
Interesting!

..... Merseyside style maybe?

Title: Re: What sort of steam tug is she please
Post by: SteamboatPhil on May 02, 2018, 08:31:34 pm

Too shinny, and rope fenders...... {:-{

Title: Re: What sort of steam tug is she please
Post by: Martin (Admin) on May 03, 2018, 12:51:25 am

 
Thanes tug SB Hibernia?

http://www.shipsnostalgia.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/612434/title/hibernia/cat/503

Title: Re: What sort of steam tug is she please
Post by: tugnut on May 03, 2018, 07:30:35 am

As Martin said Thames tug Avenger, Hibernia,  or Moorcock shape hull.

Title: Re: What sort of steam tug is she please
Post by: Stumps on May 03, 2018, 09:35:16 am

I looks a bit like Chipchase's Cragsider hull and not too dissimilar in size. There's a build thread under the Tug section.

Title: Re: What sort of steam tug is she please
Post by: Martin (Admin) on May 03, 2018, 09:58:09 am

 
Someone else suggested: Mount fleet steam tug cruiser

Title: Re: What sort of steam tug is she please
Post by: JimG on May 03, 2018, 10:47:11 am

Not the Cruiser unless the bow has been modified. The Cruiser doesn't have the raised bulwarks at the bow.
Jim

Title: Re: What sort of steam tug is she please
Post by: Alan Spencer on May 03, 2018, 01:57:58 pm

Quote from: SteamboatPhil on May 02, 2018, 08:31:34 pm

Too shinny, and rope fenders...... {:-{

Yes my thoughts exactly when I first saw it. I think the guy that owned it seems to have worked towards a conversion of tug to private yacht !!!

Title: Re: What sort of steam tug is she please
Post by: Alan Spencer on May 03, 2018, 02:06:07 pm

Thanks everybody for your input, I am far more informed now than I was when I posted the photo  :-))!!! I will now set about deciding which Thames Tug I want to replicate!!! Dare I post the results at a later date?!!! :embarrassed: