B L Nairn at Newport Pier
B L Nairn at Newport Pier
B L Nairn at Newport pier. The B L Nairn was in operation from 1929 until the service ended in 1966.
Date of coverage
1929 - 1966Place
Newport PierLicense
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC-BY-NC-ND)Reference number
NOT.1123Format
Photograph (1409)
Area
Newport (1194)
Subject
The Ferry Boats (49)
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I also used to travel and watch the engine being serviced. I would be great if I could see a photo of these great metal beans going.
I come from Newport but left in 1954.
As I recall tickets were sold on the Newport side and collected in Dundee. Tickets sold on the Dundee side were also collected there so it was possible for a boy to board in Newport sail over to Dundee and back carefully avoiding any expenditure on tickets. The B.L.Nairn was steam powered with a compound steam expansion engine on its back driving the paddles. The engine room was surrounded by windows so these beautiful engines could be observed. quite closely. Early in my youth I had decided to be a marine engineer and I used to watch the engineer at the controls reading a newspaper and nonchalantly completing the required engine movements as required. Not quite the same as deep sea sailing but fascinating to a small boy. Needless to say that the diesel powered ferries did not hold the same interest. As Kipling said ‘Predestination in the stride o’ yon connecting rods’.
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