Eppleton Hall colors

[Dinosaursoupman]

Hey PD's,

Does anyone have or know of the colors for the Eppleton Hall? Flickr has a number of recent pics of her but I pray that the vertical white and turquoise stripes on the stack are just someones' idea of a joke or that someone let their senile mother-in-law pick the colors and that the real colors are more deserving of her use. I guess I would like to see more "manly" colors for her upperworks.

Randy

[Barry]

Appleton Hall in the, I believe, 1950's. From the book "Steam tugs, a colour portfolio by David L. Williams". The funnel colour are those of "France Fenwick Tyne and Wear", a company my late Grandfather worked for. The funnel colours are a combination of those of the Sunderland Towage Co. Ltd and the Anchor Steam Tug Co. Ltd. The blue and white stripes are based on the arm band worn by the Police of the time.
Personally I think the colours quite attractive.

[Dinosaursoupman]

Thanks for those pics Barry.

I prefer the stack colors depicted in those pics over the current colors. I realize that everyones' personal tastes are going to be different and I don't mean to offend anyone with my personal opinion about the current colors. I know somebody had to choose them and I'm sure they have an excellent reason for the choice. But in my tad humbler opinion, if and when I build her, I would prefer a different choice of colors for her upperworks.

Randy

Just to assure we're talking about the same thing, here's a recent picture taken from Flickr.

[Barry]

It does seem to be a brighter blue. You could all ways use her original funnel colours. Those of the Lambton and Hetton Collieries Ltd. Black with three red bands.

[Barry]

The blue does seem to vary in shade quite a bit, probably due to weathering and the heat of the funnel. The blue and white was based on the Sunderland police force colours. The colours were intended to convey the the company's motto Safety and Security. I would imagine that the brighter colours would also make the company's tugs stand out from the competition.

[Walter Snowdon]

Coming from Sunderland, I remember Eppy and the other paddle tugs very well from my child -hood and the colours were quite a pale blue and white. there are several superb colour pictures of Eppy and other river wear tugs on pages 15, 16, 17, 18 0f a book called STEAM TUGS A COLOUR PORTFOLIO by David L williams, published by     ian allan punlishing ltd. in 2002.  ISBN 0 7110 2857 5. These are superb quality large colour pictures and well worth looking at showing her in -service scheme and funnel clearly. regards, walter.

[derekwarner_decoy]

Hi PD's - I printed out the Plan for Body, Half Breadth & Sheer & has an impressive draft as an open sea vessel - she would make a great subject to model in 1:24 & real steam  ....Derek

[Channel]

In San Fran last week - seen by my folks.

Whilst her current condition is not perfect and she is non operational she has survived - unlikely she would have done if she'd remained in her home country.

Chris

[Walter Snowdon]

The June PICTURES OF THE MONTH on the Kingswear Castle web sit e has several pictures of Eppy preparing and on her voyage to America. Regards, walter.