StoneRoad2013's photos with the keyword: propeller

Close up of the rudder, propeller and under the hull. The anti-fouling has worked quite well on the wooden hull, but the metal work has accumulated a few items of marine growth - mainly barnacles, mussels and some tube worm. The sacrificial anode has all but disappeared ... so it has done it's job.

Info card accompanying the damaged Avro Lancaster propeller.

Quite a sad story, unfortunately one that was very common in wartime, details taken from the info card. Remains of a propeller from a Merlin powered Avro Lancaster W4947, which crashed on 18th July 1943. It was trawled up by "Girl Pat" in 1995 off St Bees, and retrieved from Whitehaven by SAM. W4947 was in 156 Squadron [pathfinder] and took part in six raids over Germany in 1943. After some technical difficulties she went to a Maintenance Unit and then back to RAF Winthorpe. Her last flight was a night navigation training, leaving at 23:55 on 17th July 1943. It has been assumed that she flew south along the coast, but got so low that she clipped the surface and crashed with the loss of all the crew. [RIP].

Rear end ... . . not my image

View to compare with how she looked when we first saw her; up in Fife, Scotland.

detail of the anodes, rudder, propeller, rope-cutter and the deadwood under the stern.

Blue gloss on Hull, light blue bo'top and anti-foul below the waterline. The prop, rope cutter and Macduff anodes are fitted temporarily and will be removed until just before the launch trip - for extra security.

Old and new propellers and shafts.

New and Old - shaft and propeller

Collection of small boat propellors and Kelvin engines.