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| SS Master; 1920's tugboat | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jul 13 2015, 12:25 PM (175 Views) | |
| sue | Jul 13 2015, 12:25 PM Post #1 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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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 | Jul 13 2015, 12:27 PM Post #2 |
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Finally
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Beautiful! Pics ain't bad either, you know. |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| jon-nyc | Jul 13 2015, 01:23 PM Post #3 |
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Cheers
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Nice! |
| In my defense, I was left unsupervised. | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Jul 13 2015, 01:31 PM Post #4 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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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 | Jul 13 2015, 05:22 PM Post #5 |
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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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“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.” ~A.A. Milne | |
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| Red Rice | Jul 14 2015, 07:55 PM Post #6 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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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. |
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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 | Jul 15 2015, 05:39 AM Post #7 |
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Bull-Carp
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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. Big Al |
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Location: Western PA "jesu, der simcha fun der man's farlangen." -bachophile | |
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| Red Rice | Jul 15 2015, 05:46 AM Post #8 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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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 | Jul 15 2015, 05:56 AM Post #9 |
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Bull-Carp
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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." Big Al |
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Location: Western PA "jesu, der simcha fun der man's farlangen." -bachophile | |
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