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Paddler Information => Research => Topic started by: Porsche356ss on December 09, 2014, 09:36:19 PM
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Dear Gentlemen,
I am trying to research information (particularly photos or paintings) on one of the first paddle boats built in Passage West, Co. Cork, Ireland.
She was called the "City of Cork" and was ordered by the Cork Steampacket Company for servicing passenger movement between Cobh and Cork.
We are holding a Maritime Festival in Passage West in May next year (departure point of the S.S Sirius. The Sirius started from Passage, port of Cork, on 4 April at 10.30 in company with the Ocean, of the St. George Steam Packet Company. In a race against the Great Western she was the first steamship to cross the Atlantic under her own steam and beat the Great Western by 18 hours into New York on the 22nd of April 1838 by with a focus on ship building that used to take place in the area.
The "City of Cork" was the first steamship to be built in Ireland and had an unusual (for a boat) beam steam engine that was purchased from Bolton & Watt (of James Watt fame!) of Birmingham. We have extensive drawings of the engine and correspondence from Bolton & Watt (thanks to the wonderful archives at Birmingham Library) but sadly lack any particular details of the boat itself.
When I came across Paddleducks I thought this might be the proper location to find someone with knowledge of this boat.
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Did you mean City of Cork 1815 rather than 1851? There was also a later screw steamer, sistership to CSS Alabama that was called City of Cork. If you want the earlier, try these citations and here is some text from Irish Arch. soc 1895. see images below.
Turn of the tide: an outline of Irish maritime history - Page 95
Basil Peterson - 1962 -
In 1815 the paddle steamer City of Cork was built at Passage West by Messrs. Michael and Andrew Hennessey and in 1817 the same firm built the Waterloo, also a paddle steamer and the first to be constructed and completely fitted out in ...
Sea Breezes - Volume 3 - Page 138 (1947) -
CORK COMPANIES' SHIPS Referring to Mr. T. O'Driscoll's article on " Steamers of the Cork Companies," the following may prove of interest. Michael O'Brien and Christopher Owens of Cork built in 1815 the river steamer City of Cork, of 50 ...
I have the entire article from the 1895 Cork Historical society Journal if any one would like to see it in its entirety.
it is pp 149-173.
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Beam Engines were not that unusual at the old days of steam. Even the Eppleton Hall had beam engines, for each wheel one. She could turn on the spot by switching turning direction of one engine, but was much larger than the City of Cork.
Regards
Gerhard
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Hello Gerhard. The Eppleton Hall had two SIDELEVER engines known in the northeast of England as Grasshopper engines as the lever looked like a grasshoppers leg!. Regards, Walter
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Hello Gerhard. The Eppleton Hall had two SIDELEVER engines known in the northeast of England as Grasshopper engines as the lever looked like a grasshoppers leg!. Regards, Walter
This is, what I meant. I have all the stuff about the EH, she will be a coming project for me, with the two engines aboard, as a real steamer. I`ve also got a good photo from her, as she is for restoration work in San Farncisco.
Regards
Gerhard