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John Heny Dore

http://freespace.virgin.net/tom.lee/index.htm

These people do a newsletter which has included articles on Whippingham membership £17 per year I believe. They will tell you how to convert your narrow boat to steam driven! Probably not very practical to add paddles though!

See http://website.lineone.net/~tom_lee/memoriesimg.htm
To order a video includes shots of Whippingham.

http://www.psps.freeserve.co.uk
These people do a newsletter which has included articles on Whippingham membership £17 per year I believe. They will tell you how to convert your narrow boat to steam driven! Probably not very practical to add paddles though!

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/tramways/Whippingham.htm

Built in 1930 by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering at Govan, Glasgow
Engines : Compound diagonal
Dimensions : 244 ft x 30.1 ft
825 Gross registered Tonnes

Also included excursion work alongside her ferry roster.
Not initially requisitioned for war service, but attended the Dunkirk evacuations, saving 2700 troops on her only crossing.

Returned to her ferry role until requisitioned in 1941, serving as a minesweeper then anti-aircraft vessel. Involved on the South Coast and at the Normandy landings in 1944. After the Allied invasion of Europe, Sandown served on the River Scheldt

Back on her peacetime station in 1945.

After increasingly less use she was withdrawn after the 1962 season.

Left for shipbreakers in Belgium in May 1963.

Watching these vessels trying to tie up to Ryde Pier in a gale, was a worrying time. It would take many attmepts to get a line across, whilst trying not to have the paddles smashed on the pier.

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