Archive for: May 2011

Kyle Weisman (Packers hardhat) screws a siding board into place as Joe Rice forces the board into a curve on the side of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Solar Decathlon house during a late-night construction session on Sept. 3. The Solar Decathlon house is being sided with bent wood planks. Before …

Duke of Lancaster (Flintshires Funship)? The Duke of Lancaster was a railway steamer passenger ship in operation in Europe from 1956 to 1978, and currently beached at Llanerch – y – Mor, on the River Dee, north-east Wales. The Lancaster was sold to Liverpool based company who intended her to …

Mitchell’s, River & Coastal Steamers, 1925. No8 "Curraghmore"

Bangor, along with neighbouring Llandudno, probably gives today’s enthusiast the best opportunity to see a how traditional promenade piers would have looked in their heyday of the 1860s. Ironically, construction of Bangor Pier did not commence until the mid 1890s, making it one of the later piers to be built. …

John Stevens, c. 1830, Oil on canvas by Unidentified Artist Revolutionary War colonel John Stevens, trained in the law and self-educated as an engineer, was a pioneer in steam-engine experimentation. In 1804 his small steamboat, Little Juliana, operated by twin-screw propellers, made a successful trip across the Hudson and back …

A coastal cargo steamship/motorship, built 1872. This vessel was built by John Fullarton and Co, Merksworth Yard, Paisley, with engines by William King and Co, Dock Engine Works, Glasgow. The first owner was Stuart Manford, as a tender for the Clyde fishing fleet. From 1881 she was used by a …

One of my relations is visiting Norway and today he has invited me on an eight hour cruise to Geiranger and back on the coastal steamer (hurtigruten), all expenses paid! How lucky am I? I took this shot in 2005 and it shows the QM2 dwarfing the coastal steamer! …