Hi Everyone,
After more than a year away from modelling and drawing, due to work and family commitments, I am now trying to catch up on a backlog of drawing. I have completed the lines for the ps Avon, the first paddle steamer upon the Waikato River, in New Zealand.
built of iron by Barclay Curle & Company Glasgow, Yard No 72 in 1859, shipped to Lyttelton NZ in parts and reassembled 1860. Tonnage: 42grt 27nrt - Length: 58.2ft - Breadth: 15.4ft. Propulsion: steam 30nhp - diagonal
History
11/1862 taken up as gunboat in Waikato War
1866 used as coal hulk
1868 rebuilt by Robert Gibbons at Manukau
1872 altered to screw and reengined 20nhp
30/9/1886 wrecked Croizelles Harbour, Blind Bay NZ
Owner History:
??, New Zealand
1862 New Zealand Government
1868 J & E Ellis, Auckland
1869 Joseph Banks
1871 F Banks, Lyttelton
1878 JohnDuthie & J P Watt
1882 Edward Broughton, Wanganui
1883 H Lewis & E Broughton, Nelson
1883 E A Robinson
HELP REQUIRED
Any and all information on what type and style of engines and boilers, paddles and shaft decoupling that was used by Barcley Curle & Co around that period. Say 1855 to 1865, or there abouts.
Have the lines from NMM Greenwich, and various sketches and descriptions by associated people from its time on the Waikato, also some survey records.
I’d like to include the internals on my drawings, and any assistance for any period of its life would be most appreciated.
Probably have enough to get the external appearance correct, but any extra information most welcome.
Thanks in anticipation
vnkiwi