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Paddler Information => Preserved Paddle Ships => Topic started by: tonyh on September 16, 2010, 04:14:37 PM

Title: P.S.Lincoln Castle - Campaigners try to stop Demolition.
Post by: tonyh on September 16, 2010, 04:14:37 PM

http://www.thisisgrimsby.co.uk/news/Campaigners-vow-paddling-despite-boat-torn-apart/article-2644544-detail/article.html

Tony

Title: Re: P.S.Lincoln Castle - Campaigners try to stop Demolition.
Post by: dn31 on September 18, 2010, 07:13:38 PM

Its to late now to save her

Title: Re: P.S.Lincoln Castle - Campaigners try to stop Demolition.
Post by: andy on September 19, 2010, 07:08:36 AM

What will happen with the engine?

Andy

Title: Re: P.S.Lincoln Castle - Campaigners try to stop Demolition.
Post by: dn31 on September 19, 2010, 07:45:25 AM

Looks like it will be scrapped as well

Title: Re: P.S.Lincoln Castle - Campaigners try to stop Demolition.
Post by: derekwarner_decoy on September 19, 2010, 09:38:44 AM

sorry PD's....I am not trying to :hijack ....but there is a world wide thirst for scrap steel.....I see it every day.....huge B double trailers taking crushed car bodies to the Port of Kembla [near Wollongong] to be exported to Korea

Crazy  :ranting....all to come back as Hyundai Getz motor vehicles or those Hyundai Jaws of Death cutting machines  :crash as shown the the picture below........

In reality I can understand the LC's hull being recycled if no real benefactor can be found....but to cut up a twin cylinder horizontal steam engine like this is   :nono Derek  :41

Title: Re: P.S.Lincoln Castle - Campaigners try to stop Demolition.
Post by: dn31 on September 19, 2010, 03:45:47 PM

They are very close to the engine now you can see it in this pic.
Its a triple expansion engine.

Title: Re: P.S.Lincoln Castle - Campaigners try to stop Demolition.
Post by: Dickie735 on October 24, 2010, 06:54:25 AM

Saw her a few days ago. The engine had just been broken up and taken out. The crankshaft was burned through just inboard of the padleboxes.

Title: Re: P.S.Lincoln Castle - Campaigners try to stop Demolition.
Post by: rmcluckie on December 08, 2010, 09:49:28 AM

Final photos here including views of the triple expansion engine being dismantled.

http://freesteammamod.myfreeforum.org/archive/the-dimise-of-the-p-s-lincoln-castle__o_t__t_4558.html

Title: Re: P.S.Lincoln Castle - Campaigners try to stop Demolition.
Post by: Eddy Matthews on December 08, 2010, 10:01:00 AM

A sad sight to see another paddler go, but the last few images show how badly corroded she was below the waterline.... Having said that, I've seen vessels in a lot worse condition get restored!

Regards
Eddy