Firefly
Status: Active use
Owner: Mike Potts
Area: UK-South West
Previously owned by Malcolm Skevington of Leighton Buzzard
Status: Active use
Owner: Mike Potts
Area: UK-South West
Previously owned by Malcolm Skevington of Leighton Buzzard
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Status: In Service
Owner: The Shamrock Trust
Website: https://www.shamrocktrustuk.org/
Area: UK-North
Built by Shepherds of Bowness 1906. Originally fitted with a Sisson Triple. Owned by W. Birtwistle until 1929, C. Ashley 1930-4. Converted to motor 1948, used by Bowness Bay Boating Co. for tripping. Acquired, derelict Nov 1976, restored and new plant fitted by Roger Mallinson 1978-9. Engine built in 2001 by Roger Mallinson. The boiler came from the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway River Irt, and was shortened and converted to side firing. After Shamrock was badly damaged in the floods of 2009, The Shamrock Trust was formed to raise funds for repairs. She was again damaged in the floods of 2015, and repaired under insurance. Shamrock is a member of the National Historic Fleet, certificate no 65. She is formally owned by the Trust, but continues to operate under the management of Roger Mallinson.
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Status: Steaming
Owner: Alan & Verona Davis
Area: UK-South West
Quetzal was originally built as a Torbay Handicap Class racing yacht . She has a racing history in Torbay dating back to the 1930s .Purchased by me in very poor condition in April 2011 lying in a farm yard near Totnes South Devon . Totally rebuilt and converted to accept a steam plant by owner .Restoration/conversion completed September 2014
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Status: Steaming
Owner: David & David Colley
Area: UK-Midlands
Built for first owner, Colin Speers as ‘ALIWAL’and sailed on the River Thames. Acquired by John R. Froud and David S. Williams of Bradford on Avon1991. Acquired by present owner in June 2000 and sailed all years since. Original Newton Coil boiler failed inspection 2002 and was replaced. Anthony Cazaleat bought Silkie in 2010 from Noel Donnelly after and advertisement in Funnel. A single cylinder engine was fitted. As she was going to steam in Poole harbour it needed a condensing system. After a bit the engine was not working and Noel replaced it with a Stuart single, again this was not a success. About 4/5 years ago Noel found the compound engine presently fitted. He did not know who made it. Sold in 2023 to father and son, David and David and stored in the East Midlands.
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Status: Active use
Owner: Dick Dolton
Website: http://mono-tube.org.uk
Area: UK-West London
Developed from Sirius 6.
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Status: Steaming
Owner: Matt Jodrell
Area: UK-North West
Built 1986 by Stoke-on-Trent Boatbuilders. Original Lune Valley boiler replaced 2006 by VFT type and converted to wood briquettes from coal. Bought by Neil and Linda Cocksedge in March 2015. Engine overhaul by John Maltby winter 2017/8. Extensive refit at Stokeboats 2017 to 2019. Sold to Matt Jodrell June 2024.
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Status: Laid up/In Storage
Owner: Edward Thring
Area: UK-South West
Bought as nearly naked hull in 1992 . Launched 2012 . Cushions added 2013 . Removable canopy and side curtains added 2015
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Status: Active use - resting
Owner: John A. Frampton
Website: http://Johnaframpton53@gmail.com
Area: UK-South West
Steam plant removed from Bucephalus Steam Bicycle, it was originally designed to power a Steam Canoe. Mounted on a lift-in bearer, and fitted with a new gas firing system. New piping was made up to suit boat installation, and improvements to fittings were made. Construction was started in April 2020, flotation testing, July 2020, and construction completed in April 2021. Currently frequently in use with outboard motor as boiler is not yet certified, although it is steam able.
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Status: Steaming
Owner: Frank Rozelaar
Area: UK-Midlands
The first owner, M Baldwin, was an engineer at the railway works in Derby and his real interest was the steam engine which he made in the 1980's. He later bought the hull and undertook the detailed fitting out over a period of 3 years when he saw little of his wife which gave rise to the name Bethanne's Rival. The current owner bought the boat in 2011.
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Status: Steaming
Owner: Alec Collyer
Area: UK-South West
New as "UNA of Shaldon" fitted with 5A and Clarkson WTB by Ken Slater in 1981. Then "LUNA" with Barry Hughes, Northam, N. Devon. 1992 to Robin Macgregor, fresh steam plant in 1993, renamed again "S L LUNA", laid up 1997-98. Oct 1998 to Bill Findlay , Thames. Then via Derek and Janet Mills to Alec Collyer MBE (Present owner) in 2000 ?? busy still steaming !!
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Status: Fettling needed
Owner: Mark Williams
Area: UK-Cambridgeshire
Built by Borwick Boats of Bowness-on-Windermere in 1955 for the Bowness Bay Marina Boat Hire, as a clinker built wooden hull on frames, it was fitted with an inboard Stuart 2-stroke petrol engine made by Mike Smith of Fleetwood. As "Boat No 5" of their hire fleet, it doubtless served them well as it remained with them until 1996. Purchased in 1996 by a Lake Warden (John Wood, 1936-2014) on Windermere, she was renamed "Swan Song" and used as "Ferry Tender No 1936" by him, with the original engine used until an outboard was fitted (presumably when the original expired), until 2001. Nick Lancaster of Fleetwood then acquired her and embarked on a full refurbishment of the hull, including the addition of striped mahogany topsides, and conversion to steam power by removing the original engine and fitting the current steam boiler and engine. Renamed by Nick as "Missfire", unfortunate health issues intervened and two friends, Roger Squires and Jim Booth, acquired her in 2016 to complete final finishing work. They did so in April 2017, when "Missfire" was tested/approved by C J Davies of the SBA; accompanied by Nick, "Missfire" was successfully returned to water in August 2017 at Lake Coniston. This revealed that some fettling was needed to the drive coupling arrangement, but loss of storage meant that time was against them. Hence, a new custodian was sought and she was acquired by Mark Williams in September 2017, with whom she now resides in Buckden, Cambridgeshire. Fettling over the winter should see her take to the River Great Ouse come spring in 2018.
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Status: Future Museum Exhibit - Retired
Owner: Écomusée de la Pêche et du Lac, Thonon-Les-Bain
Area: France
Steamed mainly on Lake Geneva .
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Status: Active use
Owner: Alan Atkins
Area: New Zealand
Hull located in an apple orchard in 2004, hull restored and strengthened 2005, steam fit out 2006. Boat was used regularly from 2006 to 2015, then the children arrived and Tui has been laid up since. Now March 2021 with the children 5 & 6 its time to dust off the cobwebs to get her steaming again, so expecting Tui in the water sometime late in 2021.
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Status: Undergoing renovation
Owner: Peter Lee
Area: UK
Built in 2005 by John Winn, the boat was later owned by Mark Rudall before being purchased in November 2017 by the current owner.
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