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Post by JohnV on Aug 22, 2019 6:34:12 GMT
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/people/why-campaign-has-been-launched-to-save-yorkshire-tom-puddings-tug-boat-the-wheldale-1-9898065?fbclid=IwAR38rMSPa23mlRBCYL6K3jqppHaeXLWSrO2US-z6XhFnvCvm4xUMdsVQX7cAs I am tied up alongside the Wheldale and three Tom Puddings, outside the sadly now closed "Yorkshire Waterways Museum" I thought I would post this ....... the prices mentioned in the article are not strictly accurate as £35k is what is being asked for her but she has not been drydocked for some years and is in need of some fairly extensive remedial work. I do fear that she will be sold to someone who will convert her to a liveaboard, ripping out the lovely old Lister Blackstone and putting in a much smaller unit and using the space for accommodation. (as has been done to some) and the last of these iconic tugs in original state will have gone. As regards the Tom Puddings and jabus, goodness only knows. they cannot be converted to anything, their only hope is to end up as a memorial on a roundabout ..... which I suppose is better than the scrapman's flame axe. Sad times.
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Post by deadly on Aug 22, 2019 15:16:53 GMT
Jebus might have converted to a nice little bedroom if there wasn't so much concrete inside it. All the jebuses are supposed to be the ones built for the previous steam tugs, they're even older than the boats. the 5? diesel tugs didn't get their own.
There's not much space inside to be a useful anything with an 8' tall engine in the middle and a 4 pot lister off to the side as well, but once its all removed it does make a nice space.
Think I've been on 3 of them at this point. Hatfield (which was the prototype for the others and the last one built with a riveted hull, still the most original of them all), Wheldale, and West Riding (which is extensively converted).
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2019 18:58:31 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2019 9:58:20 GMT
Pictures taken on our last trip to Goole.   Wheldale used to give trips around the port. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2019 10:33:36 GMT
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Post by pluto on Aug 23, 2019 10:35:28 GMT
Jebus might have converted to a nice little bedroom if there wasn't so much concrete inside it. All the jebuses are supposed to be the ones built for the previous steam tugs, they're even older than the boats. the 5? diesel tugs didn't get their own. There's not much space inside to be a useful anything with an 8' tall engine in the middle and a 4 pot lister off to the side as well, but once its all removed it does make a nice space. Think I've been on 3 of them at this point. Hatfield (which was the prototype for the others and the last one built with a riveted hull, still the most original of them all), Wheldale, and West Riding (which is extensively converted). Five jebuses were built 1966/7 by Camplings at Goole for the new diesel tugs. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2019 19:42:06 GMT
Other photos taken the same day, same place. This would be in 2015, the last year we owned our boat, possibly late 2014. I suspect a lot of these old boats are no longer there, I know a couple were for sale back then.  Not sure if its ever been done but that would make a lovely bow for a new build barge. A nod to history. They do it all the time with narrow boats  Much better than the scrap mans cutting equipment. |
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Post by JohnV on Sept 6, 2019 6:24:57 GMT
Other photos taken the same day, same place. This would be in 2015, the last year we owned our boat, possibly late 2014. I suspect a lot of these old boats are no longer there, I know a couple were for sale back then. You would be surprised ...... the same boats are still laid up there ....... occasionally one might disappear for a few days for a one off job but end up back there again. Hiddekel was the last on away a few weeks ago on riverbank repair work.  SAM_2656 by mudlarker2, on Flickr This was taken a couple of weeks ago and Battlestone, Seagull and Hiddekel are in the background, Joyce Hawkesley, Daphne and the Heather Rose are still there, as well as quite a few others. (Service was loaned to the museum by Waddies and has gone back there) |
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Post by naughtyfox on Sept 6, 2019 8:18:34 GMT
Other photos taken the same day, same place. This would be in 2015, the last year we owned our boat, possibly late 2014. I suspect a lot of these old boats are no longer there, I know a couple were for sale back then. Haha! Thunderboat flags! |
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Post by Jim on Sept 6, 2019 9:58:00 GMT
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