And we Poles have got here the last classic steam engine driven freighter. Having been put to service around the Trafalgar Day in 1949, she remained active until Dec. 1980 and now carries on as museum ship at Gdańsk/Danzig. In Flensburg they've got their Alexandra, a passenger steamer from 1908, to say nothing of the Skibladner from Norway. ♍🇵🇱👍
@lesdonaldson5208 ай бұрын
Great looking ship . Saw here on the Clyde taking sewage out to see to be dumped
@neilfoster8148 ай бұрын
That ship's horn sounds like something out of a Tom & Jerry cartoon! 😂 Lovely vessel though. I used to live about 10 minutes from Southampton docks, and had a hand in the building of the Fawley Oil Terminal.
@raymillar14998 ай бұрын
Fantastic to see a lovely old lady of the seas still going.
@nosaltadded25308 ай бұрын
"Oil fired boilers twin screw providing power to twin screws." Got it.
@australiantrains89888 ай бұрын
Just loved the engine room and bridge, plenty of brass and quality polished timber. That cruise ship looks like a floating Miami apartment block, give me the old Arcadia any day!
Many years ago I donated my old sight reduction tables to this ship. I wonder if they are still on the bridge? However being a coastal vessel I don't suppose that they have seen much use!
@almac25988 ай бұрын
There was a comedy song in my youth about this ship - The SS S***haul. really does need to be preserved, there is the Steam Trawler Lydia Eva out of Great Yarmouth, although thats now a museum ship.
@zzp18 ай бұрын
When ships were ships.....
@patrickbell19108 ай бұрын
Whitonia is not an aggregate carrier, she carries bunker oil for the ships in the Solent ports.
@bobeden50278 ай бұрын
I'll never forget the sound of the "Susti" pump.
@roboftherock8 ай бұрын
I would have been 12 when it began operations. I recall seeing it on days during the school holidays when I picnicked with the family on the shores of the R Clyde. Also recalled is the last remaining ocean-going paddle steamer 'Waverley' which plied on the river then as well. Not forgetting 'Talisman', 'Jeanie Deans' and 'Queen Mary II' - this last had steam turbines driving propellors instead of paddles.
@geraldschilli88708 ай бұрын
It’s just too bad there aren’t anymore beautiful relics like this still in existence.
@johnjephcote76368 ай бұрын
When I look at those 'cruise ships' I just have to laugh. The old Uganda...now that looked like a ship.
@NortyNige8 ай бұрын
I worked on that bloody thing, it was a right laugh, the mate and chief engineer were right twats but everyone else well apart from Richard were a good laugh. Dave the Cox who looked like some refugee from Israel, Gus the second who had a lovely ground up restored Riley, Lead Head who you always knew was working the engines as the change over in the boilers was always putting out enough smoke to make those in Rome had a dead pope. Then Mick from Manchester Pat x 2 from the Falkland isles and Nick Donoruma from Woolston who was a diamond of a geezer in the deck dept, Dave the Chef and for the life of me I can't remember the captains name, an Irish gentleman who had a wicked sense of humour. Every day the Bovril boat would sail forth to the dumping grounds do her circle of shyte then return to Southampton for a fresh load and off she would go again. In drydock I ended up going quite literally everywhere on that ship from inside the boilers cleaning out the tubes to buoyancy spaces cleaning, chipping, painting. Although if anyone from the submarine would like to say why they popped up in the brown ring I would love to know why.
@richardcross76338 ай бұрын
So telegraph on stand by, presumably main engine in view running, unusual if not direct drive. Am I missing something?
@rottenroads19828 ай бұрын
I say, that ship should be Preserved.
@Niklas_was_taken8 ай бұрын
The worst thing you can do to a ship is let it sit and the second worst thing you can do is run it
@dianeunderhill85068 ай бұрын
It is preserved.
@paultanker56068 ай бұрын
G'day to you! I thought it would have been nice to see a long shot of the ship to get an idea of what it looks like ,instead of snippets of different parts of her, a bit annoyed about it!
@CaptLance8 ай бұрын
Hmm, that is strange, I thought the Waverly was still operational?
@johnkerr19538 ай бұрын
Yes the Waverley is still in operation .
@tonystevens92788 ай бұрын
A good video thank you. By the way "Whitonia" is a bunker tanker.
@bernardtheulsterman8 ай бұрын
And there is also the Waverley
@PeterCox-k1w8 ай бұрын
Old machinery needs to work regularly otherwise it dies
@cjsb22lr8 ай бұрын
What about the Waverly??
@robtiller60068 ай бұрын
Waverley is smaller and a paddle steamer. Not a screw ship. SS sheildhall is bigger.
@johnkerr19538 ай бұрын
Yes the Waverley is still in operation.
@xmtryanx8 ай бұрын
@@robtiller6006 And?
@Krimzendee7358 ай бұрын
Is this the hospital ship from dunkirk
@robtiller60068 ай бұрын
no it was built 1955
@johnnyseagull298 ай бұрын
No. Its the sewage dumping ship from Glasgow.
@NortyNige8 ай бұрын
@@johnnyseagull29 Bovril boat mate, get the term correct.
@bigmeltie18 ай бұрын
Glasgow's 'toley boat' - 'its terrible aroma will have you in a coma...' Shieldhall is an area of Glasgow was where one of the sewage works was situated. Another was Dalmarnock, which also gave its name to another sewage ship.