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Re: Waverley Updates - 2018
« Reply #30 on: Aug 15, 2018, 11:43 PM »
Excellent videos Gav! Reminds me a bit of being on Shieldhall. Curious as to what the changing audio tone is in the background of your second video of the main engines? It isn't a warship type whistle/horn is it (as Shieldhall has along with her steam whistle)?
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Re: Waverley Updates - 2018
« Reply #31 on: Aug 16, 2018, 12:21 AM »
Gav
I think that the tone in the background is coming from the airpump  which is removing the condensed steam from the condenser

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Re: Waverley Updates - 2018
« Reply #32 on: Aug 16, 2018, 07:15 PM »
Hi Folks - if it’s a rising and falling kind of whooping tone then it’s her Weir steam driven boiler feed pump.

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Re: Waverley Updates - 2018
« Reply #33 on: Aug 31, 2018, 07:05 PM »
Poor old Waverley had a bit of a tough time last weekend, but a quick repair later, and the world's only seagoing paddlesteamer was able to storm down to Llandudno. Some great photos here.

https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/gallery/waverley-steams-to-llandudno-7680006
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Re: Waverley Updates - 2018
« Reply #34 on: Sep 01, 2018, 08:44 PM »
Poor old Waverley had a bit of a tough time last weekend, but a quick repair later, and the world's only seagoing paddlesteamer was able to storm down to Llandudno. Some great photos here.

https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/gallery/waverley-steams-to-llandudno-7680006

Glad she's okay now and is down here to admire sometime - if she's in the Bournemouth area soon. My Dad told me yesterday that he went on Waverley from Bournemouth Pier (when a jetty used to project out from the end of the pier) to Swanage as a child (around 50 years ago now). He remembers her engine room in particular.
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Re: Waverley Updates - 2018
« Reply #35 on: Sep 10, 2018, 01:19 PM »
Hi Thomas,

Waverley has only be sailing in preservation since 1975 on the Clyde and 1978 (I think) down south - might it have been 40yrs ago?

If not then perhaps it was on her ex fleetmate Jeanie Deans - she was withdrawn from Clyde service in 1964 and was bought for Thames and South Coast service which she operated from 1965 to 1967. It wasn't a huge success really due to the fact that she was getting on little (built 1931) so her boiler and wheels were in need of attention. She was scrapped at Antwerp in 1968.
 
She sailed as Queen of The South during the forementioned period.

ps Jeanie Deans

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Re: Waverley Updates - 2018
« Reply #36 on: Sep 10, 2018, 02:00 PM »
Hi Thomas,

Waverley has only be sailing in preservation since 1975 on the Clyde and 1978 (I think) down south - might it have been 40yrs ago?

If not then perhaps it was on her ex fleetmate Jeanie Deans - she was withdrawn from Clyde service in 1964 and was bought for Thames and South Coast service which she operated from 1965 to 1967. It wasn't a huge success really due to the fact that she was getting on little (built 1931) so her boiler and wheels were in need of attention. She was scrapped at Antwerp in 1968.
 
She sailed as Queen of The South during the forementioned period.

ps Jeanie Deans

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Hi Gav,

I suspect it was PS Jeanie Deans then. Thank you for the information, we never stop learning! She was a lovely paddler. I'll mention her when I next speak to my Dad.

Thomas
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Re: Waverley Updates - 2018
« Reply #37 on: Sep 10, 2018, 10:21 PM »
Glad she's okay now and is down here to admire sometime - if she's in the Bournemouth area soon. My Dad told me yesterday that he went on Waverley from Bournemouth Pier (when a jetty used to project out from the end of the pier) to Swanage as a child (around 50 years ago now). He remembers her engine room in particular.

I don't believe that jeanie Deans / Queen of the South went anywhere near Bournemouth. However, Bournemouth was a busy paddle steamer pier up until the early 60s with Cosens & Co running a substantial fleet

Their last paddler was PS Embassy whose last season was 1966

http://paddlesteamers.info/EmbassyDuchessofNorfolk.htm

Waverley is currently at Southampton but winds and high seas are playing havoc with her programme. Saturday was badly curtailed, Sunday cancelled. Monday was an off day. Tomorrow (Tuesday) is also cancelled
Regrettably, Bournemouth pier is no longer available for Waverley to call at - a major traffic source now off the radar, no doubt for good   


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Re: Waverley Updates - 2018
« Reply #38 on: Sep 11, 2018, 12:56 AM »
I don't believe that jeanie Deans / Queen of the South went anywhere near Bournemouth. However, Bournemouth was a busy paddle steamer pier up until the early 60s with Cosens & Co running a substantial fleet

Their last paddler was PS Embassy whose last season was 1966

http://paddlesteamers.info/EmbassyDuchessofNorfolk.htm

Waverley is currently at Southampton but winds and high seas are playing havoc with her programme. Saturday was badly curtailed, Sunday cancelled. Monday was an off day. Tomorrow (Tuesday) is also cancelled
Regrettably, Bournemouth pier is no longer available for Waverley to call at - a major traffic source now off the radar, no doubt for good

Thank you for the extra information tramscape. The puzzle deepens! I can try asking my Dad if he remembers any particular details of the paddle steamer he travelled on, but he was a young child at the time so this could've been 55 years or so ago let alone 50 years ago (he is 60 now).

Sorry to hear of Waverley's continuing problems on arrival down here on the South Coast. It is a shame Bournemouth pier is no longer available for her, but this has been the case for many years now as far as I understand from my Dad. I live a 20 minute walk from the pier so would be down to see and photograph her in a flash if she was down near the beach!
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Re: Waverley Updates - 2018
« Reply #39 on: Sep 11, 2018, 08:45 AM »
I don't believe that jeanie Deans / Queen of the South went anywhere near Bournemouth. However, Bournemouth was a busy paddle steamer pier up until the early 60s with Cosens & Co running a substantial fleet

Their last paddler was PS Embassy whose last season was 1966

http://paddlesteamers.info/EmbassyDuchessofNorfolk.htm

Waverley is currently at Southampton but winds and high seas are playing havoc with her programme. Saturday was badly curtailed, Sunday cancelled. Monday was an off day. Tomorrow (Tuesday) is also cancelled
Regrettably, Bournemouth pier is no longer available for Waverley to call at - a major traffic source now off the radar, no doubt for good

Thanks Tramscape - wasn't sure where Jeanie sailed to (when she actually sailed) when she went south.

Did Bournemouth fall into disrepair or was it just closed to traffic?

Gav

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Re: Waverley Updates - 2018
« Reply #40 on: Sep 11, 2018, 10:44 PM »
No,I think Bournemouth Pier has been open ever since ..... there have been lots of smaller excursion boats operating over the years

It was closed to Waverley from last year on account of structural issues but has always been a thriving tourist attraction in the leisure sense of being a pier with lots of seaside entertainment

The latest attraction appears to have been a zip-wire and some have said that this would now get in the way of it ever reopening for a ship such as Waverley !

It also needs dredging. There is lots of sand in Bournemouth, which drifts and accumulates. Latterly Waverley had to miss calls on occasion depending on the state of the tide ...... and the state of the sea. If there was a reasonable swell, there was a big danger of her hitting bottom unless it was near high tide

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Re: Waverley Updates - 2018
« Reply #41 on: Sep 12, 2018, 07:48 AM »
No,I think Bournemouth Pier has been open ever since ..... there have been lots of smaller excursion boats operating over the years

It was closed to Waverley from last year on account of structural issues but has always been a thriving tourist attraction in the leisure sense of being a pier with lots of seaside entertainment

The latest attraction appears to have been a zip-wire and some have said that this would now get in the way of it ever reopening for a ship such as Waverley !

It also needs dredging. There is lots of sand in Bournemouth, which drifts and accumulates. Latterly Waverley had to miss calls on occasion depending on the state of the tide ...... and the state of the sea. If there was a reasonable swell, there was a big danger of her hitting bottom unless it was near high tide

My Dad was telling me that Bournemouth Pier used to have a jetty extension which ships of a similar size to Waverley used when he was a child so they could "dock" in Bournemouth more easily. This jetty is no longer there and hasn't been for decades now.

Since moving down to Bournemouth in 2011 we have never seen Waverley or a similar size ship go to the end of the pier as it is very shallow as you've mentioned (people swimming can still stand up a fair way out from the beach) - but we may have missed the times Waverley was there. We also used to holiday in Bournemouth when I was a young child (before going to school, so around the Millennium) and don't recall seeing the likes of Waverley near the pier but again may have missed her (somehow!). Smaller pleasure boats do still use the end of the pier however as you've also mentioned, as the one doing tours around the anchored HMS Diamond, at the air show this year, did.

It is a bit disconcerting that the end of the pier is still open given such structural issues. I have photos and videos I took from the end of the pier which show that the wooden structure has seen better days, but I thought that was more of a cosmetic problem! If Waverley does start visiting again that would be wonderful!
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Re: Waverley Updates - 2018
« Reply #42 on: Sep 13, 2018, 02:18 PM »
Waverley would sail from Bournemouth on about half her days whilst on her two week or so stint in September

I don't know for sure but I had the feeling she used one of the sides of the pier

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Re: Waverley Updates - 2018
« Reply #44 on: Sep 14, 2018, 10:38 PM »
She did...

https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1366&bih=662&ei=YdaaW7arBc2RkwWAiqmwDg&q=waverley+bournemouth&oq=waverley+bournemouth&gs_l=img.3...1039.5335.0.5599.21.11.0.10.10.0.103.608.8j2.10.0....0...1ac.1.64.img..1.11.610.0..0j35i39k1.0.3i2QFABflyQ

Thank you for confirming Peter. I am kicking myself as we were not aware of her still visiting the pier as late as 2016 from what I can see when quickly looking through the image search results. Maybe the zip line does affect things now or a lack of dredging? A shame if these things do. Having said that she may still be using the pier after all so I will keep a lookout after all! A wonderful vessel and photo opportunity too good to miss - she should be around about now (although she was in Southampton earlier today and seems to be docking there in the last few days)!
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