Name The Ship - Game

Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 9:17 am • Post subject:

I tried the register of national Historic Ships (under passenger vessel), but I didn't find her. (list is not searchable on building dat Sad

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Either I'm looking at the wrong type of ship, or she is not in the list (no hits on Bristol or Portsmouth build/currently located at).....

Jan

Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 11:03 am • Post subject:

OK , lets have a look at the information that has been put up to date

1) Was built 1902

2) Strong connection with the Super Sentinel steam lorry (Wiki ?)

3) Brunel designed (Amateur worked out )

3) Ship still exists.

4) Restoration in progress.

5) Is on freshwater Lake. (108 years in the water and no hull corrosion,Plimsoll mark only gives load line so water density must be constant.)
6) At that age must be one of the oldest working ships in ?????? ( well there are only 5 continents)

Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 11:53 am • Post subject:

SS Chauncy Maples

Lindsay

Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 12:01 pm • Post subject:

Started looking in an other continent too late Sad

(had a vague feeling of it being non-english at the last pic, but alas.....)
(and I was looking at the wrong Brunel Sad

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Would be welcomed if someone could explain the Sentinel-connection to me Smile

Jan

Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 12:06 pm • Post subject:

Indeed. http://www.chauncymaples.org/ship/default.php

.The 150-ton steamship Chauncy Maples was commissioned in 1898 by the British Universities' Mission to Central Africa. Designed by Henry Brunel, the son of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, she was built in Glasgow by Alley & McClellan, at a cost of £9,000. She was then disassembled into 3,481 parts.

The ship's 'Abbott' boiler was built in Newark, Nottinghamshire, and weighed 11 tons. It was transported in one piece on a special carriage fitted with traction engine wheels and shipped to Portuguese East Africa.

The boiler was towed on a barge up the Zambezi River and then hauled overland by 450 Ngoni tribesmen for 64 miles. Up steep hills and across river beds, they averaged three miles a day. The other parts of the ship were carried on the heads of men and women.
Not only did Alley & McLellan also make the Super Sentinel lorry the carriage for the boiler was transported on a wagon with wheels made for their steam lorries.

I liked this bit :-
Unfortunately, when the parts of the hull were galvanised in Glasgow, the parts numbering system was hidden, so the engineers in Malawi had to work out a huge jig-saw to re-assemble the ship.Took 2 years.

Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 12:29 pm • Post subject:

Phew! That was made difficult by all those "clues" adrift!!
I should have stuck with my original hunch that the first photo was taken in Africa. My first pass concentrated on the Boer war then WWI (I even thought of the MV Liemba - grrr, I was close there!!), which was obviously unsucessful, then your clues started coming and I got so side-tracked...

Ok then, a change of pace:

Mystery Ship 1646

Lindsay

Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 6:08 pm • Post subject:

Definately French, so would say maybe SEINE, "On the bricks" at Cornwall, 1900.
Bob

Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 7:23 pm • Post subject:

Sorry Bob, not Seine and not English rocks...
But you got the French bit right.

Lindsay

Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 7:37 pm • Post subject:

Another photo:

Lindsay

Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 2:06 pm • Post subject:

And another:

In this picture the lifeboat can be seen on the right approaching the wreck.

The Lifeboat can be seen today! Here it is just prior to display:

Lindsay