Waverley has done it again.

[TernVI]

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But I doubt any skipper would go slower and use a thruster to steer instead of the rudder.
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You don't have ferries down your way then?

 

[Elessar]

You don't have ferries down your way then?

Your point is?

 

[Bilgediver]

Given the choice of the Waverley or any of the dire, sad, undermanned and overworked coasters with six knackered Russians on board around our coasts, I’ll go for the Waverley. All she has done, in 45 years of operations, is clout a few piers and run aground once or twice. I’d call that a pretty good record.

View attachment 98275

Just letting off a bit of steam must have got a bit hot and bothered.

 

[Spyro]

Here’s a report from someone who was on board;

What now for Waverley? - CRSC : Clyde River Steamer Club

A good write up. The Waverly was still tied up at Brodick pier this morning. I fear after the investigation this will be the last time she sails into a dead end pier with no escape route.

 

[38mess]

Around 12 years ago she was in the roath basin Cardiff docks, she had just had a major overhaul I think. We were invited onboard as we were berthed nearby.
Lovely guys as crew, not sure if they were volunteers, but they seemed knowledgeable.
I was astonished when I was told that the paddles were joined and couldn't operate independently.
Anyway I had a good look over and was impressed at the quality of the work.
She was sailing on the next tide so I hung around to watch.
At sailing time a small launch pushed the bow out to line her up with the open lock gates, off she went very quickly, and promptly scraped the lock walls on the way out. Quite a lot of damage done I believe.
Apparently these boat are really difficult to manoeuvre.

 

[awol]

Glen Sannox back in Port Glasgow but with her bow to the west, presumably with her nose job complete. So Garvel dock is available.

 

[TernVI]

Somebody just pointed out that the vast majority of these paddle steamers were buit for the railways.
Railway engineers don't understand that most other conveyances need steering!

 

[JumbleDuck]

Glen Sannox back in Port Glasgow but with her bow to the west, presumably with her nose job complete. So Garvel dock is available.

If it's not booked, of course, though nothing with AIS on has gone in there. Waverley is still in Brodick and my money is still on the dry dock in Troon.

 

[awol]

She's now parked in Weegieland under the Science Centre Tower.

 

[JumbleDuck]

She's now parked in Weegieland under the Science Centre Tower.

Perhaps they reckon there's no point in paying for short notice work since her season was due to end this week anyway, and they'll just straighten out her conk when she is in for her annual dry docking over the winter.

 

[mbroom]

She's now parked in Weegieland under the Science Centre Tower.

Is the tower still intact??

 

[cpedw]

Is the tower still intact??

Was it ever?

 

[JumbleDuck]

Was it ever?

I actually managed to go up it a few years ago, on one of the days it was open. After we had been up for about ten minutes we were hastily ushered out and it was closed again, because a body had been found floating in the basin next to it.

 

[Kukri]

In this bit of old newsreel (from 3:23 to 4.08 - don’t bother with the rest of it) we see a paddle steamer trying and failing - twice - to get alongside Clacton Pier in the 1930s. It seems to me that she needs to keep speed up for handling - more so in the conditions- and then can’t stop quickly enough. So let’s not be too hard on the Waverley which had to stop in a dead end, so to speak, rather than go round and try again.

East Anglian Film Archive: Clacton Pier with Steamer, c.1930

 

[Frank Holden]

Three of my four last day jobs were twin screw plus bow thruster very high freeboard ro-ros... up to 20,000 GRT... on the overnight Bass Strait trade so a daily berthing before breakfast on limited caffeine... all weathers
The fourth was only single screw... a rather horrid DFDS ship built in Italy...
On the side ... in my last few working years I used to take the steam tug Wattle... circa 1935(?) .. out on weekends with day tippers...

Going into that berth? Not for me.... as stated in above post ...

My three rules of ship handling...
Never approach anything at a speed greater than that which you would like to hit it ...
A stopped ship is a drifting ship over which you have no control....
Make speed your friend...

Bit of a bugger trying to put them all together..

The dent on Waverley will buff right out.. scroll down to 1936 to see a real dent WAHINE 1913 - The New Zealand Maritime Record - NZNMM

Hands up every one on this thread with real ship handling experience?????

 

[Sandyman]

Hands up every one on this thread with real ship handling experience?????

Quite a few including this one. The last triple expansion reciprocating steam turbine in the Navy, oh and the last vessel classed as a warship to have sails.

 

[newtothis]

The dent on Waverley will buff right out.. scroll down to 1936 to see a real dent WAHINE 1913 - The New Zealand Maritime Record - NZNMM

Wahine has been a very unfortunate name in NZ shipping history. I was a kid there in the late 60s when another one went down.

 

[Frank Holden]

Hang on... 'triple expansion reciprocating steam turbine'... really... I'm thinking you were on deck and not an engineer

 

[iain789]

HMS

Quite a few including this one. The last triple expansion reciprocating steam turbine in the Navy, oh and the last vessel classed as a warship to have sails. View attachment 98567

HMS Reclaim. That was a good few years ago. Who was the CO? Ken Kempsell by any chance?

 

[Frank Holden]

Ah -- pardon - .... exhaust turbine... Some Clan Boats had that kit.. showing my age..
Marine steam boilers and boiler accessories