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Re: not a Mississippi steamer
« Reply #15 on: March 18, 2023, 10:27:52 PM »
oh Chris, I already have so many projects in mind.
Build a steamboat with a paddle wheel, very challenging!
I looked through old pictures, there were steamers with a tail wheel in my city about 100 years ago. And also the steamers with 2 rear wheels. All workhorses. A steamer has been moored in the city center on land since 1974. Was pulled ashore immediately after the last trip by Russian armored recovery vehicles and a restaurant set up there. Incidentally, there is also the steering machine on deck, a completely different design, and the anchor winch. I also believe the steam winch to lower the chimney.

Michael
Well, if it has a different  steering  engine, you will just have to build a model of each!   :Lol:




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Re: not a Mississippi steamer
« Reply #16 on: April 08, 2023, 06:11:27 PM »
Today a real paddle steamer passed me. The "Dresden" built in 1926.
She is on her way from Dresden to Hamburg.
I tried to greet the ship with signals.

Michael


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Re: not a Mississippi steamer
« Reply #17 on: April 08, 2023, 06:35:57 PM »
Excellent video!  Could hear the sounds of the engine as it went past, very nice!

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Re: not a Mississippi steamer
« Reply #18 on: April 08, 2023, 09:34:48 PM »
I think that you where answered from the ship - I never heard 3 different whistles used before - then again, there might be different requirements in Germany from the ones in Denmark  ;D

Per     :cheers:

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Re: not a Mississippi steamer
« Reply #19 on: April 08, 2023, 11:01:55 PM »
Very cool video, Michael!  :ThumbsUp:

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Re: not a Mississippi steamer
« Reply #20 on: April 09, 2023, 11:48:13 AM »
Hello Per, the vapers have this steam whistle with 3 chambers.
I answered with the whistle of my traction engine, which I temporarily mounted on the wall outside.
I don't know of any particular order of greeting.

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Re: not a Mississippi steamer
« Reply #21 on: April 09, 2023, 05:36:04 PM »
Interesting Whistle you got there  :ThumbsUp:

OK - I better start by saying that I don't have any knowledge about how to use the whistle (or more correct - I've learned some as a child, but 50 years later  :headscratch: ) ....
My Maternal Grandparents had a very nice Summer Cottage in Sejs, on the banks of Gudenåen (the only River in Denmark - the rest are not big enough to be called rivers in the Danish language) and the Worlds oldest Paddle Steamer (that has sailed the same route, every Summer since 1861) sails by four times every day - so I have seen her many times in my childhood.

Here some pictures and Video (including the Engine) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqjyHYjh8Sc" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqjyHYjh8Sc</a>

But, I have never heard the Whistle used so much as in your Video - especially without any other boats or ships in sight .... this is why I expect that he is replying you Michael  :cheers:

Per

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Re: not a Mississippi steamer
« Reply #22 on: April 09, 2023, 07:03:24 PM »
a nice little paddle steamer!
At the big steamboat meeting in Flensburg, the ships always gave each other three beeps when they met. First one ship three times, then the other ship three times. Is perhaps a custom on the high seas.
Inland shipping does not know this.

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Re: not a Mississippi steamer
« Reply #23 on: April 17, 2023, 07:11:29 PM »
and back


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Re: not a Mississippi steamer
« Reply #24 on: April 17, 2023, 07:59:24 PM »
Great video!  Love when the passengers  cheered the whistles. That ship would make a great RC model.

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Re: not a Mississippi steamer
« Reply #25 on: April 17, 2023, 08:00:43 PM »
PD bedeutet Paddel Dampfer, nicht wahr?  Ein wunderschönes Schiff.
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Re: not a Mississippi steamer
« Reply #26 on: April 17, 2023, 08:39:09 PM »
Hello Marv,

you could think so.
The PD stands for "Personen Dampfer" in German.
It marks the ship for people only.
At that time there were parallel paddle steamers only for towing ships without engines.
Up to seven ships with cargo hung on a paddle steamer.


Greetings Michael

 

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