A fine late 19th Century pressure paraffin fired steam launch, the brass screwed and framed mahogany planked hull with planked deck, brass fittings and aft cockpit with seats and grating. Power plant details include paraffin tank and burner, water tube copper boiler built by A. Pearce 1995 to original design (with some modifications) with some original fittings including filler plug, twin water gauges and drain cocks, safety valve and regulator and steam line to twin vertical cylinder engine (possibly by Whitney) with displacement lubricator, disc flywheel and shaft coupling to single shaft with 'A' bracket, three blade propellor and rudder, finished in matt varnish and black -- 26 x 70½in. (66 x 179cm.). Stand (later). Boiler certificate, original boiler

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A fine late 19th Century pressure paraffin fired steam launch, the brass screwed and framed mahogany planked hull with planked deck, brass fittings and aft cockpit with seats and grating. Power plant details include paraffin tank and burner, water tube copper boiler built by A. Pearce 1995 to original design (with some modifications) with some original fittings including filler plug, twin water gauges and drain cocks, safety valve and regulator and steam line to twin vertical cylinder engine (possibly by Whitney) with displacement lubricator, disc flywheel and shaft coupling to single shaft with 'A' bracket, three blade propellor and rudder, finished in matt varnish and black -- 26 x 70½in. (66 x 179cm.). Stand (later). Boiler certificate, original boiler

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