----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian on Harnser" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 2:06 PM Subject: [canals-list] Re: Medway Queen is using Rivets
> David Cragg wrote on 28/01/2010 : >> A friend is interested in the old Medway Queen Paddle steamer. This went >> to >> Dunkirk and used to do trips from Southend to Clacton across the Maplin >> Sands >> (with lead in action) when I was a kid. Finally the hull rotted away and >> it >> sank a few times. Now a society is rebuilding her with the old engines >> but >> with an all new hull and interior works. There is a webcam of the drydock >> they are using for the job. The interesting bit is that the new Queen >> will be >> built using rivets. The first new ship to be built using them in 50 years >> they say. As there was a rivet thread on here I thought you might like to >> know. >> > have you got a link to the web cam? > Brian > > -- > Brian traveling on Harnser > http://nbharnser.blogspot.com/ > > ------------------------------------ > Hello Brian Try this http://www.medwayqueen.co.uk/webcam.html Brian ---------- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.733 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2650 - Release Date: 01/27/10 19:36:00 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
