Re: The Beckfoot Launch


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Posted by Jock on April 09, 2006 at 13:53:03 from 81.77.68.199 user Jock.

In Reply to: The Beckfoot Launch posted by Laurence Monkhouse on April 09, 2006 at 08:36:27:

The Beckfoot launch could not possibly have been a steam launch.

Ransome's Beckfoot launch is a motor launch and the Crossleys had a steam launch, but let's not let the type of engine get in the way of the hypothesis that AR may have 'borrowed' more than Esperance from the Crossley household.

The Salters Steamers were steam powered, then converted to diesel and now a few beautiful examples are working again under steam power. Crossley was a motor car and bus manufacturer and may well have converted his steam launch to diesel at the time that AR knew the family.

I found the following bit of text on the Windermere Steamboats Museum website. It confirms that such conversions were not uncommon. "Osprey" is currently without an engine. Originally a steamboat, later converted to diesel power she was re-converted to steam and ran for many years on a loaned engine.


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