Yarmouth Belle????

[mjt60a]

I was just looking at the national historic ships website (linked in another topic) and decided to do a quick search of paddle vessels...all the ones you'd expect to see (J H Amos, Lincoln Castle, etc) show up... and Yarmouth Belle. It says the vessel was originally built as a paddler in 1892!  Converted to diesel in 1947 (and I assume to screw propulsion too at that time)
I never knew that 
The boat now has freewheeling dummy paddlewheels about a foot wide that look too narrow and flimsy to really power it, and fairly large rectangular windows where the engine/boiler room shoud be...but even so, I had no idea this was another surviving paddler!
http://nationalhistoricships.org.uk/index.cfm/event/getVessel/vref/2104/pic/2 

[Channel]

Didn't know that either! Anyone got pics of her as built ? Be interestin to compare hull lines . . .

Chris

[AlistairD]

She was NOT paddle at Yarmouth, there is a photo here
http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/Thames_Turk-Launches.html#anchor1284357

[mjt60a]

Ah, good old Simplon PC, should've thought of looking there for a second opinion