Ex Paddler ?

[Channel]

Is this a former paddler . . . it has the look of one . . .

http://crm.yachtfocus.com/temp/tmpf9fd58c7d1fb8aa24d5b96f3a1d695dd.pdf

[Tug--Kenny]

Can't get into the site, Channel, it's password protected.  Could you post the 'pic'

ken

[PaddleWheel]

See here: 

http://www.turks.co.uk/fleet2.htm

Jack.

[Tug--Kenny]

I like 'The new southern Belle'.  Just the place for an annual get together. 

ken

[mjt60a]

If we're talking about Yarmouth Belle, I found this the other day (I posted it under preserved paddlers)  http://nationalhistoricships.org.uk/index.cfm/event/getVessel/vref/2104/pic/2
It says it was originally a paddle steamer...

[Channel]

Not the Yarmouth Bell chaps - try this link.

http://www.yachtfocus.com/jacht_details.php?yachtID=95679&s=dag_passagierschip._mps_graaf_van_bylant

[Hankwilliams]

Hello,

we are talkin about the "Graf van Bylant" ?

No, she was not a former paddlewheeler.
Last build Rhine paddle steamer was the 1929 build "Mainz". In the same year also the last paddletug "Toulon" was launched.

Namely after WW2 some smaller screw steamdriven tugs were launched, but none paddlewheeler, also not driven by diesel.

Greetings

Thomas

[Channel]

Thanks Thomas

[AlistairD]

I think that site is wrong about Yarmouth Belle. As far as I can remember she was a screw steamer, and ran as a screw trip boat on the Thames befoe her present owners converted her to a paddler. I am not even sure of the paddles are powered, and think they are fake. She was certainly a screw motor vessel up to about 15 years ago