Carola Carola.
With my model Carola, posing alongside the real Carola at the Scottish Maritime Museum, Irvine. (See my set "Gooders Models" for more on the water shots of the model) .
The steam yacht CAROLA was built in 1898 by Scott & Sons Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. at Bowling, on the Clyde, for personal use of the Scott family, who owned her until 1959, when ownership passed to the company. She carried the family on holiday cruises, including annual visits to the family's summer home at Colintrave on the Kyles of Bute. She also took groups of senior yard staff on Clyde cruises, whilst in the winter months she served as a tender and tug.
During the Second World War, she was fitted with fire-fighting apparatus and a steam-driven fire pump to serve as a fire tender at the yard. In the 1950s, she broke away from her mooring on the River Leven and was blown ashore. Subsequently, she fell into a semi-derelict state and was sold in 1964 to a private owner, who kept her at Garelochhead and on the River Leven. He maintained her until 1970, when she was sold and for a time berthed at Bucklers Hard on the Lymington River.
In 1981, she was sold to a marine company called Plysolene, of Southwater, Sussex, and refitted for use as a promotional and corporate hospitality vessel. In 1990, ownership passed to Z-Guard Zinc Anodes Ltd, also of Southwater, Sussex. In 1992, the access flap to the boiler failed, filling the engine-room with steam and tragically killing two crewmen. Later in the 1990s, CAROLA was acquired by the Scottish Maritime Museum for display at Irvine. The funnel and hull are now painted in the original colours of cream and black respectively. Source: Paul Brown, Historic Ships The Survivors (Amberley, 2010), updated Feb 2011.
The model is at 1/24th scale, plank on frame, scratch built of 1mm ply on 3mm ply frames, most fittings hand made with some commercial items. She is electric powered and radio controlled, and can be seen sailing on the beachpark pond at Irvine on Sunday afternoons.
Carola Carola.
With my model Carola, posing alongside the real Carola at the Scottish Maritime Museum, Irvine. (See my set "Gooders Models" for more on the water shots of the model) .
The steam yacht CAROLA was built in 1898 by Scott & Sons Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. at Bowling, on the Clyde, for personal use of the Scott family, who owned her until 1959, when ownership passed to the company. She carried the family on holiday cruises, including annual visits to the family's summer home at Colintrave on the Kyles of Bute. She also took groups of senior yard staff on Clyde cruises, whilst in the winter months she served as a tender and tug.
During the Second World War, she was fitted with fire-fighting apparatus and a steam-driven fire pump to serve as a fire tender at the yard. In the 1950s, she broke away from her mooring on the River Leven and was blown ashore. Subsequently, she fell into a semi-derelict state and was sold in 1964 to a private owner, who kept her at Garelochhead and on the River Leven. He maintained her until 1970, when she was sold and for a time berthed at Bucklers Hard on the Lymington River.
In 1981, she was sold to a marine company called Plysolene, of Southwater, Sussex, and refitted for use as a promotional and corporate hospitality vessel. In 1990, ownership passed to Z-Guard Zinc Anodes Ltd, also of Southwater, Sussex. In 1992, the access flap to the boiler failed, filling the engine-room with steam and tragically killing two crewmen. Later in the 1990s, CAROLA was acquired by the Scottish Maritime Museum for display at Irvine. The funnel and hull are now painted in the original colours of cream and black respectively. Source: Paul Brown, Historic Ships The Survivors (Amberley, 2010), updated Feb 2011.
The model is at 1/24th scale, plank on frame, scratch built of 1mm ply on 3mm ply frames, most fittings hand made with some commercial items. She is electric powered and radio controlled, and can be seen sailing on the beachpark pond at Irvine on Sunday afternoons.