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[happy daze john in oz]

Found my African Queen pictures. These are from 2008. Sadly, she was quite a mess on the inside.

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Jaycn on the Windsor castle some of them were a mess on the outside.

[happy daze john in oz]

Hi Ron
If you go back a few Posts that has been given !
It was "Captains Courageous"
Cheers

If you recall Vernon there were afew Captain Courageous on UCL, they had to be with som eof those we sailed with.

[Jacyn Wade]

Jaycn on the Windsor castle some of them were a mess on the outside.

Gives me a new perspective on the phrase "ship shape". Now wondering exactly what that means???

[John Gill]

Excellent idea, Brian. I was hesitant to post the rest of the pics I have, but maybe they'll be more motivating...
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Saddened me to see her in this condition. The owner should be drawn and quartered!

You missed out 'hung'- he may well have been.

[William Gardner]

just been told by a bloke who seems to know that the african queen was built in aboat yard just up the coast from fleetwood a place called lytham st annes how about that

[robpage]

According to asource it was built in 1912 by Lytham Shipbuilding and engineering Co, as evidenced by the boiler plate and Lancashire records.

[William Gardner]

According to asource it was built in 1912 by Lytham Shipbuilding and engineering Co, as evidenced by the boiler plate and Lancashire records.

looks like the bloke was spot on cheers rob

[robpage]

Tuesday, March 16, 2010 http://www.lancashirelife.co.uk/peop...hire_1_1636981

She may not be in prime condition and her bottom may have seen better days, but this is one old movie star who will never sink without trace.The African Queen steamboat that carried acting greats Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn in the classic 1950s movie is still firing the imagination. The famous vessel that took Bogie and Hepburn down the Congo River now hangs in a covered cradle above a small marina in Key Largo, one of the Florida Keys in the USA.
The years may not have been kind to this nautical Grand Old Lady, as she hangs there, marooned and looking a bit down at heel.The African Queen But shes still seaworthy, just as she was when she was constructed and launched into the River Ribble, just a few miles inland of Lytham on the Lancashire coast.That was back in 1912, when the vessel built by the Lytham Shipbuilding and Engineering Company. Her original name was the Livingstone. Appropriately, we presume, the 30-foot open-hulled steam launch was created by the shipbuilders of Lancashire to be used by the British East Africa Railway Company. Its a role it fulfilled in central Africa right up to the middle of the 20th Century.As portrayed in the Oscar-winning African Queen film - to this day one of the most successful and best-regarded films ever made - the vessel spent her working life hauling cargo, big game hunters and missionaries on the lakes and rivers bordering Uganda and the then-Belgian Congo.

Now, this little bit of Lancashires heritage has come out of Africa and is fascinating tourists in the sun-drenched climes of the beautiful Florida Keys. Its an idyllic setting for this standard bearer of Lancashire engineering from the era when Britannia ruled the waves.The African Queen on its only visit back to the UKThe African Queen on its only visit back to the UK Today, its proud owner is an American entrepreneur called Jimmy Hendricks, who doesn't play the guitar, but does run the Holiday Inn Hotel at Key Largo. He shows off the African Queen for free in the adjacent marina, next to his glass-bottomed boat, which provides tourists with a view of the coral reef.
Im really proud to own the historic vessel, he says. It was bought by my father back in the early 1980s. He used to take people out to sea in it but it now needs some attention. My aim is to bring it back into tip-top condition and have it back in the water from time to time.
The adventurous Queen has certainly had an illustrious and well-travelled past, since the day when she came down the slip on the Lytham Creek, just east of Lytham. The small shipyard there was set up in 1894, after apparently moving from its former engineering base in Preston.
In its time, the shipyard, which was in business until 1954, built small tugs, coasters and naval vessels such as ammunition barges and telegraph repair ships, before focusing on river craft for West Africa and the Congo. It appears the African Queen was one of the first of these.According to Mr Hendricks, after falling into disuse, it was re-discovered in Uganda by the legendary film directors John Huston and Sam Spiegel when they went to recce the region for filming.
He adds: They based the film on the book by C.S. Forester and were looking for an authentic steamboat out in Uganda. People thought they were crazy to film out there but they found the old African Queen and used her - plus a model on a giant raft - to do the filming. It earned Bogie his only Oscar, and added to Hepburns reputation, and it made the vessel they used very famous too.After its film role, the African Queen eventually became idle in Uganda before being bought by a Californian. It then moved north to a river in Oregon, where an old 1903 cider mill steam engine was fitted. After that it was moved to Florida and then bought by Jims father, who was infatuated with Hepburn.Jim Senior took the vessel on visits to New York, on to Hepburns home in Connecticut, and even to the Earls Court Boatshow in London, where he sailed her under Tower Bridge, with the Union Flag flying highJim Junior is confident the vessel will have a head of steam when he puts her back in the water, adding: If you put 150 lbs of steam into her, something will happen!

Looking at te state of te Boiler something might just happen

[William Gardner]

So you were on there as well!!!!!!!!!!!!

the castle boats had pink hulls i remember nuff said

[Don Rafferty]

. It earned Bogie his only Oscar,

Never knew that, surprising.