YEA ITS MR BRUNNEL ?I would guess the most famous photo with studded chains.........................
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Dave
I think the fact that I have only done short sessions when I can fit around work has made it easier going in that some of the more tedious task as mentioned are spread out. To be fair, those coal grates are not going to be on many ships so this is probably an exception. I guess the rigging is quite taxing but again I’ve just done little bits at a time and it soon takes shape.Great work Carl, makes me wonder what i have let myself in for lol
Thus giving rise to the expression "That Isambard, the sun shines out of his boxhole". Something like that anyway.IKB eh! Victorian self assurance at its best. When he designed the GWR main line from Bristol to London he arranged it so that the sun shines through box tunnel on his birthday!
Never heard it called that!!Thus giving rise to the expression "That Isambard, the sun shines out of his boxhole". Something like that anyway.
Pete
Sounds like trains round here lHe wasn’t that good....apparently he got the alignment wrong and it’s four days out LOL....
Yep, who’d want that job now a days..Carl,
HMS Hood was oil fired - just connect up a few pipes & there you go! Only warships really went through the horrors of coaling - their armour plating meant that you couldn't have large convenient holes in the side to get the coal through! Merchant ships didn't have that problem & passenger ships had purpose built chutes, so they could load coal faster & cleaner! - Which is why the older coal fired ships had such large crews!.
As an aside, the limiting factor of speed in the early destroyers wasn't the engines, or the hull form - it was the strength & stamina of the stokers! You only had a limited number of stokers - If you had more stokers, the ship had to be bigger, and the coal bunkers became more widespread. So as coal was used up, the trimmers had more difficulty in supplying coal to the stokers. Running at full speed would quickly exhaust the stokers ( and I'm talking about hours, not days! ). One of the main reasons that destroyers were oil fired pretty quickly
Dave
I’m sure with your experience your be fine Bob.Lovely Carl
Learning a lot for my ship attempts!
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