Paddle Steamer Monarch - 22nd Sept 2018

A short film of Paddle Steamer Monarch sailing from Wareham on Saturday 22nd September 2018.
PS Monarch was built by Brian Waters between 1985 and 1995 on the Medway. She is 42 feet long and just over 7 feet across the beam.
The hull is flat bottomed drawing 21” with a wooden saloon and wheelhouse but steel boiler room housing.
Monarch’s paddles are feathering and built to Brain’s own design. The engine is compound 4 1/2” HP, 8” LP and 10 1/2” stroke.
The feed pump and air pump are driven off the little ends by rocking beams. The engine exhausts into an inboard condenser then into a hotwell, to be pumped back into the boiler.
Monarch is able to carry 12 passengers and is reputedly the smallest commercial paddle steamer in the world. In 2018 she operated cruises on the river Frome, departing from the Quay in Wareham.

[@coffeepot3123]

Beautiful paddle-steamer. And to think it's this new!, the people that built it.. hats off to you!

[@ciala51]

I already have and it’s so small and cosy but amazing with the 2 cylinders in the main bit inside and u can see it and all the linkage makes it even better

[@ocean8608]

A truly beautiful paddle steamer! I wish to sail aboard one one day.

[@colinmcdonald8521]

Loved the bow thruster - made me think of a Sopwith Camel with an ejector seat....!

[@harrymu148]

or the red baron with an IRIS-T pod slung underneath

[@timbonjovi]

Beautiful

[@SteamboatWilley]

This must be the only paddlesteamer in the UK with a bow thruster! This miniature appearance of this boat is similar to the "Wee Spark" replica puffer on the Forth & Clyde canal.

[@PSPSScottishBranch]

Paddle Steamer Kingswear Castle has a bow thruster.

[@chrisb903]

Ironic that a paddle steamer named Monarch is working in this part of Dorset. As a kid in the 60s when my grandmother lived in Swanage, we'd go on paddle steamers operated by Cozens at Weymouth that included one named Monarch that ran back and forth between Swanage and Bournemouth and occasionally, to the Isle of Wight

[@scurly0792]

At first I thought this was going to be a replica of the 1833 PS Monarch, but I was even more delighted to see that this was a modern steamer in actual service! I have wanted to built some new steamers of my own (when I'm old enough) because I just love them!

[@WINCHANDLE]

oooo bow thruster very cool

[@tzadikinnistarim3610]

Otgw vibes, beautiful

[@jibonkhan8682]

nice

[@Tinkerbell227]

Can I get the blueprints for this steamer? I would like to build one in the US. I don't know what the fuel is but I would like to burn old engine oil. It is easy to get.

[@cliffcosynerflight5253]

thats a modern paddle steamer bet its also an oil burner too

[@robertlacoste3315]

At 3:51 to 4:03 it looks as something is going to break. If it’s not failing it looks worn