Description
Humber ferries Wingfield Castle and Lincoln Castle (1974-5) and Clyde P.S. Waverley.
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Tracks
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We are in the engine room for the departure from New Holland pier on January 19th, 1974. |
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Up on the top deck we hear the starboard paddle wheel threshing the water on the crossing from New Holland to Hull. |
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Back down to the engine room for the landing at Hull Corporation pier. |
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Coaling the bunkers through a hole in the passenger deck at New Holland pier on January 15th, 1975. |
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The stoker firing the four furnaces under the boiler of the Lincoln Castle at Hull pier on the night of January 14th, 1975. |
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Then the gangway is raised by an electric winch on the landing stage and the gates in bulwarks are closed. |
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Sounds in the engine room as we leave Hull pier at 9.15 p.m. |
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The steady rhythm of the paddle wheels as Lincoln Castle glides across the Humber by night. |
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Back down to the engine room for the landing at New Holland pier. |
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The electric winch on the landing stage lowers the gangway and the passengers troop off. |
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Lincoln Castle berthing at New Holland pier, recorded from the landing stage, on January 15th, 1975. The mooring ropes creak on the bollards as the stagehands tie her up. |
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The beat of the port paddle wheel on the way from Ayr to Millport on July 8th, 1981. |
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Sounds in the engine room on landing at Millport. |
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