Black Pig

Status: Undergoing renovation - resting

Owner: R.D. Parker

Area: UK-Wales

Hull

Open Launch. Construction: GRP.
Hull model: Tela
Built 1993 by Chris Libby at Cornwall
LOA: 17' 0", Beam: 5' 9",
Tiller steering, transom stern, black, varnished teak deck.

Boiler

2 Drum WT Designed by J King,
Built 2020 by Richard Parker at Newport
Fuel: Coal, Pressure: 200 psi, Heating area: 24 sqft,
7" dia X 18" long Steel drum(s). 0.47" dia Cunifer tubes. Steel Drum, Cunifer tubes, bolted ends construction, Cunifer superheater,
non-condensing, engine driven pump, hand pump, feed water heater, whistle,
Stainless steel casing

Engine

Propeller

Bronze, 4 blades, Right Hand, 17" X 22"
Shaft: 1 1/8" bronze

History

New boat built to owners specification, Reeves Commander steam plant fitted 1996-7, at first fitted with a borrowed VFT boiler. First steamed Nov. 1997. New Taylor compound engine 2¼" + 3¾" x 2½" and copper boiler installed 2004. New John King design water tube boiler and Taylor single 3 1/4" x 4 1/2" stroke engine being installed for launch 2021. Engine stripped during pandemic lockdown 2020, modifications included removal of two chain driven waterpumps originaly taken from Stuart Turner inboard petrol engines, replaced with single shaft driven 6A water pump, screw reversing wheel and mechanism replaced by lever and linkage. Repainted black and green.

(Owner) Goytre Wharf, 1997