Unique video footage filmed aboard 70 year-old steamship VIC96, sailing down the Thames and up the River Medway. Part 1 - lighting up the boiler and building steam for the voyage.
To quote the engineer, the engine is "steady and will go forever." In our world, there is something very reassuring about that. Thanks for the video. I will follow as she gets underway.
i think this is very interesting seeing the steam engineers raise steam the voyage, recently i read that when they got her from the royal navy after they were finished with this steam boat that the group had problems getting enough oil fuel so they restored her boiler back to coal firing.
