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| Cruising
the Thames, Summer 2000 |
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| Trophies
Won: |
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Sheila Bourne Trophy (Best
in Show) 2003.
Reade Propeller (Restoration & maintenance of steam plant)
95 /97 / 2003 & 2008.
Horsham Cleat (Presentation of steam craft) 1997 / 1998 /
2003. |
| Year
Built: |
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1883 Turks, Cookham |
| Type: |
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42ft Open Steam Launch |
| Description
of Renovation: |
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Over the last 14 years "The
Duchess of Argyll" has been maintained and improved by
the current owner Geoffery Desborough and Stanley & Thomas,
winning many trophies at the Thames Traditional Boat Rally.
She has a "Cyclotherm" horizontal oil fired boiler
built in the USA during the war.
The engine is a twin cylinder 3 1/2" x 3 1/2" x 4" built by
Davis Engineering Co of Abingdon in 1905. The hull is mahogany
on oak with a counter stern and clipper bow. The superstructure
is teak with barley twists to support the canopy. |
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