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SS Master; 1920's tugboat
Topic Started: Jul 13 2015, 12:25 PM (175 Views)
sue
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HOLY CARP!!!
Got the chance to see this old girl up close yesterday - the last of the wooden steam tugboats here on the coast.

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George K
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Beautiful!

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Nice!
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Bad ass.

My uncle worked tugs for a couple decades. He would have loved to have seen that.
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brenda
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Lovely! I love things like that. We have some of the old paddle wheel river boats along the Mississippi River that are still in use for cruises. If you ever get a chance to do one of those cruises, take it.
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Red Rice
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Cool! Looking it up, I note the SS Master has a triple expansion steam engine, just like the SS Jeremiah O'Brien Liberty ship I toured in San Francisco; footage of this engine working was digitally modified and used in the movie Titanic.

Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool.

I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss!

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big al
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Anything with a reciprocating steam engine is great in my book. I've loved steam locomotives since I was a child. Steam tractors and steam shovels are neat. Steam boats are always welcome sights. I count myself especially lucky to have seen the steam-driven heavy structural mill in Bethlehem Steel's namesake town when it was still in operation. I also saw the steam driven mill in US Steel's Clairton Works, but it was out of service when I saw it. That big Corliss engine was still a mighty piece of iron.

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Red Rice
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big al
Jul 15 2015, 05:39 AM
Anything with a reciprocating steam engine is great in my book. I've loved steam locomotives since I was a child. Steam tractors and steam shovels are neat. Steam boats are always welcome sights. I count myself especially lucky to have seen the steam-driven heavy structural mill in Bethlehem Steel's namesake town when it was still in operation. I also saw the steam driven mill in US Steel's Clairton Works, but it was out of service when I saw it. That big Corliss engine was still a mighty piece of iron.

Big Al
Agreed. They're awesome. But probably not too pleasant to be around when they were working!

The reciprocating steam engines for the Olympic class of ships were the largest of their kind ever built.

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Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool.

I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss!

- Cecil Lewis
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big al
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Jul 15 2015, 05:46 AM
They're awesome. But probably not too pleasant to be around when they were working!
You're probably right, if you're thinking about the old days when the smoke blanketed the cities. These days, there are so few that I love to be around any one that's working. To steal someone else's sig line on another forum, "I love the smell of coal smoke in the morning."

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