This is the sort of thing I'm thinking of...
50 ft x 9 ft.
50 ft x 9 ft.
“Every battle is won before it’s ever fought.” - SunTzu. - Cheers.
Calling all 'river steamer' of the 1850's fans... please help.
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Haha... I'm familiar with all the PSs you have listed, except for the Oscar W., and the model, of course.
Where I am from, Mildura, is pretty close to the middle of the navigable part of the Murray River, Australia's longest.
Due to inconsistent rainfall in inland Australia, a series of Locks and Weirs were created the length of the Murray, over time, to allow year-round trade, because there were very few roads at the time.
In fact, the early wool industry in Australia relied on paddle steamers, with their shallow draft and paddles, to get product to the export port of Adelaide and back to 'Blighty'.
The attached image is, in fact, of your Oscar W. towing a wool barge at the junction of the Murray and Darling Rivers, 30 ks from my hometown.
Also, of possible interest to you, as an American, with the consistent water level maintained by locks and weirs, a couple of crafty yanks arrived in Mildura, set-up a California type 'flood' irrigation system, with all steam driven pumping stations, and established a wine grape growing industry.
And, thanks to those crafty young fellows, the Chaffey Brothers, we have been kicking the butt of US wine ever since, and San Mateo Avenue is a major street in Mildura to this day.
So, thanks for that.
Oh, and we have also been kicking the butt of the UK wool industry ever since too.
So I guess a vote of thanks to the Colonial Govener of the day as well.
Murray.
Haha... I'm familiar with all the PSs you have listed, except for the Oscar W., and the model, of course.
Where I am from, Mildura, is pretty close to the middle of the navigable part of the Murray River, Australia's longest.
Due to inconsistent rainfall in inland Australia, a series of Locks and Weirs were created the length of the Murray, over time, to allow year-round trade, because there were very few roads at the time.
In fact, the early wool industry in Australia relied on paddle steamers, with their shallow draft and paddles, to get product to the export port of Adelaide and back to 'Blighty'.
The attached image is, in fact, of your Oscar W. towing a wool barge at the junction of the Murray and Darling Rivers, 30 ks from my hometown.
Also, of possible interest to you, as an American, with the consistent water level maintained by locks and weirs, a couple of crafty yanks arrived in Mildura, set-up a California type 'flood' irrigation system, with all steam driven pumping stations, and established a wine grape growing industry.
And, thanks to those crafty young fellows, the Chaffey Brothers, we have been kicking the butt of US wine ever since, and San Mateo Avenue is a major street in Mildura to this day.
So, thanks for that.
Oh, and we have also been kicking the butt of the UK wool industry ever since too.
So I guess a vote of thanks to the Colonial Govener of the day as well.
Murray.
“Every battle is won before it’s ever fought.” - SunTzu. - Cheers.
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Murray!
Ooh! I like these Murray River Paddle wheeler steamers! Seems they come in all different shapes and sizes.
Should make for some fascinating work.
😉
Ooh! I like these Murray River Paddle wheeler steamers! Seems they come in all different shapes and sizes.
Should make for some fascinating work.
😉
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Update on the river steamer.
According to records just sent to me,
"... Starkey says the river steamboat was 50 feet long nine feet wide in its tiny cabin the engineer and his wife had their quarters..."
Thanks
Murray.
According to records just sent to me,
"... Starkey says the river steamboat was 50 feet long nine feet wide in its tiny cabin the engineer and his wife had their quarters..."
Thanks
Murray.
“Every battle is won before it’s ever fought.” - SunTzu. - Cheers.
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Calling all 'river steamer' of the 1850's fans... please help.
The build I'm working on, the 1850's 'Clipper' Tayleur was loaded with 'deck cargo' along with 600 odd passengers.
Among the cargo was a a boat listed as a 'river steamer'.
(Also, a large quantity of headstones, 2 railway carriages with a quantity of track, a prefabricated house and surgery).
I grew-up on the Murray River and when I see 'river steamer' I think of Paddle Steamers, but this, surely, is much more punt like I would think.
So, fellow modellers, I ask, what type/size of vessel would most likely be classed, on a freight bill, as a 'river steamer' in 1854?
Or, more imporatantly, does anyone know where I can get a 1/48th scale model of one, any one.
Thanks
Murray.
Among the cargo was a a boat listed as a 'river steamer'.
(Also, a large quantity of headstones, 2 railway carriages with a quantity of track, a prefabricated house and surgery).
I grew-up on the Murray River and when I see 'river steamer' I think of Paddle Steamers, but this, surely, is much more punt like I would think.
So, fellow modellers, I ask, what type/size of vessel would most likely be classed, on a freight bill, as a 'river steamer' in 1854?
Or, more imporatantly, does anyone know where I can get a 1/48th scale model of one, any one.
Thanks
Murray.
“Every battle is won before it’s ever fought.” - SunTzu. - Cheers.
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