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This is the PS Marion, one of the oldest wood fired, steam driven side wheeled paddle steamers still operating in the world today. Here it is tied up at the Mannum wharf on the Murray River in South Australia, and it still operates regular daily and overnight cruises for tourists. It is sitting alongside an early cable operated car ferry and is part of the wonderful little display at the Mannum Dock Museum.
This was a full colour shot, but I did a little sliding to simulate a sepia effect to fit in with the photography from the era of when it was first launched back in the late 1800s.
Happy Slider Sunday!
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PS Waverley in the Solent of the Isle of Wight is the last seagoing passenger-carrying paddle steamer in the world. Built in 1946, she sailed from Craigendoran on the Firth of Clyde to Arrochar on Loch Long until 1973. Bought by the Paddle Steamer Preservation Society (PSPS), she has been restored to her 1947 appearance and now operates passenger excursions around the British coast.
Since 2003 Waverley has been listed in the National Historic Fleet by National Historic Ships UK as "a vessel of pre-eminent national importance". She appeared in the 2011 film Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.
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PS WAVERLEY passing BAE Systems Scotstoun on passage down the Clyde.
Vessel Details:- Steam powered paddle steamer.
Vessel Name:- PS WAVERLEY.
IMO:- 5386954
MMSI:- 232001540
Call Sign:- GRPM
Classification Society:- Lloyd's Register.
Length:- 239ft 11in
Beam:- 57ft 3in
Draught:- 6ft 3in
Builder:- Built in 1946 by A & J Inglis Glasgow.
Power Plant:- 2 x Cochran Marine Thermax boilers fitted with Hamworthy Electrotec II rotary cup burners, feeding Diagonal Triple Expansion Steam Engine by Rankine & Blackmore Ltd, Greenock (Engine No 520).
Propulsion:- 2 x Fixed paddles with 8 Feathering paddle floats on both paddles.
Tonnage:- 693t.
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Hartlepool is the proud location of The National Museum of the Royal Navy with HMS Trincomalee being their key exhibit. Its three masts can be seen in the background here.
Another of the significant exhibits is the William Gray and Company 1934 Hartlepool built paddle steam ferry PS Wingfield Castle. This paddle steamer along with sister ships PS Tattersall Castle and PS Lincoln Castle plied its trade back and forth across the Humber Estuary up until withdrawal in 1974. PS Wingfield Castle was briefly used as an entertainment venue before being preserved in the town of her build in Hartlepool in 1986. Periodic attention has been given to her slowly deteriorating condition and it is pleasing to note that very recently Hartlepool council has now set aside £4m to go towards a long term renovation. That work is yet to commence.
In the meantime as seen here she sits in the harbour at Hartlepool.
Photo taken on my iPhone during my lunch break at work.
Eigentlich kann ich mich für Motorräder ja nicht so begeistern, aber wir hatten schlechtes Wetter und da lockte dieses Museum.
Mein Mann war Feuer und Flamme und auch für mich war es noch interessant. Witzig fand ich, dass die ersten Motorräder eine gewisse Ähnlichkeit zu den heutigen E-Bikes vorzuweisen haben. :-) :-)
Today the world's last sea-going paddle steamer celebrated her 70th birthday by retracing her maiden voyage.
The PS Waverley entered service on 16 June 1947, sailing from the River Clyde, near Helensburgh, up Loch Long to Arrochar.
I was about 12 inches away shooting with a 105mm macro lens just for the fun of it. This little pine siskin youngster gave me about 10 shots before he/she flew off.
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I was recently gifted a clock from Shiraz, Iran, which incorporates some of the historic Persian craft-art work. Here's a detail.
Radials:
The craft of Khatamkari has existed for more than 700 years and is still practiced in Shiraz.
Delicate and meticulous marquetry has been produced since the Safavid period. Khatam was so popular in the court that princes learned this technique alongside music and painting. Khatam means incrustation and Khatamkari refers to incrustation work. This craft consists in the production of patterns (generally star shaped) with thin sticks of wood (ebony, teak, orange, rose), brass (for golden parts) and camel bones (white parts). Sticks are assembled in triangular beams, themselves assembled and glued in a strict order to create a cylinder 70 cm in diameter, whose cross-section is the main motif: a six-branch star included in a hexagon. These cylinders are cut into shorter cylinders, and then compressed and dried between two wooden plates, before being sliced for the last time, in 1 mm wide trenches. Now sections are ready to be glued on the object to be decorated, before lacquer finishing. The trench can also be softened through heating in order to wrap around objects. Many objects can be decorated in this fashion, such as jewelry/decorative boxes, desks, frames or some musical instruments. Khatam can also be used in Persian miniatures.
Central blue:
Minakari. The art of "Minakari" or "Enamelling" is called "miniature of fire" as well as the decoration of metal and tile. Minakari or Enamelling is the Persian art of painting, colouring and ornamenting the surface of metals by fusing over it brilliant natural colours that are decorated in an intricate design. Mina is the feminine form of Minoo in Persian, meaning heaven. Mina refers to the Azure blue colour of heaven. The Iranian craftsmen of Sasanid era invented this art.
Nightingales:
Another feature is the alternating nightingales (bolbols). These have an association with Shiraz roses.
XV Congresso do Partido Socialista, em Santarem. Sexta, 10 de Novembro de 2006. FOTO DE ANTONIO PEDRO SANTOS
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