Binnacle for paddle tug

[oldie]

Has anyone a drawing or picture of a binnacle and wheel such as was used on the old paddle tugs with an open bridge,please?  Help would be appreciated.   Oldie.

[derekwarner_decoy]

Hi PD's - Oldie... this is a difficult question to answer & photographs of open bridges + paddler not all that common, however the following supplier has quite a range of cast brass marine accessories

https://ssl.kundenserver.de/www.elde-modellbau.com/sess/utn;jsessionid=1545b66a9d4e436/shopdata/index.shopscript

Martin, Howles & Bayliss also have a limited range......Derek

[oldie]

Derek,  I did not think I would have to go to Australia to get info from Germany!   There are many tenuous links here, My wife is German so I speak, read, and write the lingo,  but additionally I have been investigating my ancestry and have made contact with relatives in Western Australia.   Anyway, many thanks, I think it has solved my problem.   Oldie

[derekwarner_decoy]

Hullo PD's & goodness   ... looks like our member 'OLDIE' may infact also be 'potential convict stock' ..........as I proudly proclaim & acknowledge as my own  :no1

Anyway it is a very small world in this day & age of  :computer .....[around the world in 80 milli seconds] so if any OZ paddler    can help .....  we will......Derek

[PJ]

Hi Oldie:
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 I'm attaching two pictures of Kelvin Type compass  binnacles for you.  They are all conical examples and  they depict ones from the last quarter of the 19th Century which  could well be appropriate for a British paddle tug of that era. You can see  the oil lamps clearly on the binnacle with the painted magnetic  adjusters. You don't say what date your paddle tug will be and could  well have quite a different binnacle as there were a number of  different manufacturers and styles.  I have some 19th Century paddle  tug plans and I can send you a PM with some scans of their binnacles to  give you an idea of some of the different types if you want.
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 I used to have lots of information on this and other paddler deck  equipment but it all unfortunately went south during a hardrive crash  last year, so I'm doing this from memory.  Someone else here might  have more accurate info if you can be more specific with the period of tug  you are modeling.  The only open bridge paddle tug I have  researched carefully is the Littlehampton UK paddle tug "Jumna" (1884) and  I do have one picture which clearly shows her with a large conical Kelvin type  binnacle where the brass top has been painted white.
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  From:    oldie (research@paddleducks.co.uk)
   To: research@paddleducks.co.uk (research@paddleducks.co.uk)
   Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 5:30    AM
   Subject: Binnacle for paddle tug
   

   
Has anyone a drawing or picture of a binnacle and    wheel such as was used on the old paddle tugs with an open bridge,please? Help    would be appreciated. Oldie.



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[oldie]

PJ   The tug I am building is the `Iona`, launched in 1876, so either of the photos you put in your reply will do me fine.   Many thanks,  Oldie