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Paddler Information => Research => Topic started by: Stuart Badger on April 08, 2009, 06:38:53 PM
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Hi PDs
can any one give me any information on the Holyhead - Dublin RMS Ireland? I am unable to find very much on the web at all (one painting) about her builders, dimensions etc.
thanks in advance
Stuart
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From D B McNeill's Irish Passenger Steamship Services Vol 2 published 1971 by David and Charles
Built 1885 at Birkenhead, steel hull, 366' x 38'; simple expansion engines with very large cylinders (102x102 in). sold 1897 to the Liverpool and Douglas Steamers Co, broken up 1900; had a clipper bow and two funnels.
Duckworth and Langmuir's West Coast Steamers has a a line or two about her service to the Isle of Man, and adds that she was built by Laird Bros, had a draught of 19.2', was 2095gt, and had a power of 846 NHP
F W Burtt's Cross Channel and Coastal Paddle Steamers states that she was the longest and largest steamer on the cross-channel service; the engines were oscillating, she had a trial speed of 20.25 knots; the paddle wheels were 33ft 43ins in diameter and the floats were 13ft long and 5 ft 9 in wide. She made the crossing from Holyhead to Kingstown, now Dun Laoghaire, in three hours and was, in the writer's opinion, he fastest and most beautiful paddle steamer afloat.
The huge engines gave a lot of trouble and there is a copy of a letter written to Engineering magazine in 1885 in the book. There is also an illustration there
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One can always rely on you Alistair!
Thank you so much - now I have a starting point to start digging further - I don't hold out a lot of hope but still!
Thanks again
Stuart