Steam Tug Kerne 

It's fantastic to see these lovely old tugs still running around. Great stuff keep it going.

Absolutely a great feat of mechanical engineering and crew skills. Truly amazing and beautiful!

You come across these from time to time that are really interesting and well put together because of a love for the thing and dedication to it by i presume amateurs. The steam aspect as well as the love of the water craft is what i found fascinating. The skill required and timing in getting the craft where you want it be telegraph and tiller coordinating is great to watch. Thank you for taking the time to preserve the craft for future generations to see and admire.

Wow a lot of components working together to get her going you can really see how the term like a finely tuned ship came about ! I have a lot of respect for all the guys on board and the Captain for orchestrating the whole operation the entire video is a real joy to watch

This film sums up a great queue: A nice'n'peaceful canal trip in the old tub, with nicely crafted machinery, and bunch of blokes, at the teamwork. (A *thirty-thousand'th* of an *inch* per hundred years wear.. that's the best description of "they've built it to last" i've heard so far.)

Absolutely delightful!!!❤❤

I have the highest respect for these old tugs and their crews, great job keeping her sailing!

Great video! I served on the USS Gridley CG-21, from 1974-1978. We had two single cylinder reciprocating bilge pumps, one in each engine room. I think everyone in the aft engine room thought I was crazy. I would use the recip at every opportunity, instead of flipping a switch for the electric centrifugal pump. Both recip’s where replaced in 1977, when the Gridley was in the Long Beach Naval Ship Yard.

Previously it was called Terrier, read an article in Model Engineer, what a blessing that he is on the move. Thank you!

My father, (deceased) was a stoker for 20 plus years on international ships and local New Zealand ships before i was born in 1940. During that time of his life, he was only shipwrecked once and i think that was Union Steamship Company of NZ, SS Kaponga, which ran aground on the Greymouth bar and was totally wrecked. The crew were brought ashore by breeches buoy, that is, by a system of ropes and pulleys. Coincidently my dad was also born and raised in the Greymouth area, in a small town called Rununga. Bob Wilson, Hutt City , New Zealand.

What an excellent video of a day that makes Ratty's comment "...that there's nothing so much fun as messing around in boats" ring true. Thank you for taking the time to make it and post it here.

what a beautiful and amazing piece of engineering. Well done to the guys who keep her going so we can watch!!

Excellent 👍😀 love to see the past making it's way into the future!!

Thank you for letting me join your trip even though I'm sat on my sofa in Vietnam. As a former member of The Association of Dunkirk Little Ships owning Lazy Days from 1995 to 2010. I had the pleasure of sailing in the fleet along with Steam Tug Challenge on the 2000 Return to Dunkirk from the port of Dover where we were inspected by The Duke of Edinborough. At the dinner we shared a table with Robin Knox Johnson, he had crewed Challenge during the crossing. At my first event with the ADLS an inter year visit to Lime House Dock on the Thames I met a fellow owner, who was in the process of saving a RN Pinnace that had seen service at Dunkirk, she was about to be crushed. He worked evenings and week ends to restore Mary Jane and once she was afloat and engines running, we attended another Return this time to Chatham Dock Yard, nothing had been done below decks and when the mooring marshal gave us different berths Dave called back we had to raft together as Lazy Days was his HEADS and GALLEY. To make matter worse Dave came from Liverpool ?????????

I am always impressed with steam engines. They are quiet and very durable.

What a wonderful piece of history !

You took me to another world. Thank you so much. "Splice the main brace !" - michael

I was a fireman of a 1909 Alco 440 Steam locomotive I have the upmost respect for your crew and your beautiful Steam Tug happy holidays

Wonderful video! Thank you so much! It's a real pleasure to see such old technology still in working order! :)

A very nice film. Regards from Serbia.

Thank you for posting this voyage . It brought back my memories of working on the ST "Portwey" in the Thames tideway and Medway in the late 1980's. All sparked off by "Highland Steamboat Holidays" aboard VIC 32 with friends from the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway. Great days.

Thank you!!

nice 1 m8s, really liked your tug. seeing the strategically place brasso can brought back memories of my gran, thanks. i'm 63 now, an i lost her when i was 11.

Had to watch again...

That's moving at a really good speed for its age. Always great to see historic machinery still working and so well - hats off to those who've kept the boat alive.

Wonderful! Thanks to the crew, captain and all the others for sharing a life experience.

Excellent cinematography and editing. Really well done. I like your work

LA GLORIOSA EPOCA DEL VAPOR CONTINUA EN LONDRES ...... EL KERNE FUNCIONA DE MARAVILLAS

Ahoy, Steam Tug Kerne. Thank you🌎🖐

A pure sea diamond. Alive with heartbeat Thank you so much for sharing it in the most natural way.

Thank you for uploading this video. I enjoyed it very much !

A fine old lady, long may she grace us with her beauty.

Kinda feel like I should be standing at attention for that ole boat coming by . like saluting a retired officer . thank you for sharing this.

I love the BR railway droplights in the wheelhouse, I drive trains with those in the cab!

Amazing steam tug! Thanks for the video.

Wonderful film of a working museum piece. Oiling everything in sight, banking the firebox, working the levers, this is a good thing for everyone young to see. Merry Christmas to you Myk and thank you for this.

good vid we need more of these thanks john

Essential history. Much to learn here.

Great film, thanks Mike

This is a great video, thanks! And so glad they made the conversion from blubber to coal way back when. The wales thank you!

I once helped renovate the Steam Paddle Tug John H Amos, during my teens, ans she's in a VERY sorry state now. I also were a cabin boy / deck hand on the Tees Tugs, during the early 1970's. Great days!

The can of brasso and the pan to the compass put a huge smile on my face!

Thanks a lot for an exciting journey in a tugboat moved by steam, the power that fueled the Industrial revolution. Just a wear of 0.03" on a 28 inch bore? They are no longer manufactured like this. Such a degree of durability in the 21st century would be anti-commercial.

GREAT FILM WELL DONE ..

There's a lotta power in that there coal. What a pleasant surprise to have this to watch on Xmas Eve. Lots of really interesting mechanical views and natural music-free sounds, just as it was in your original experience. Hope the stoker was given 3 tots of rum to ease his back muscles :-)

thank you all !.that was a wonderful ride.

What a splendid little ship. Thanks for sharing.

Simply beautiful video, I would add super!

Lovely film! Thank you so much for sharing. Best regards from Stockholm, Sweden

Good stuff! Thank you.

Lovely!

Very enjoyable, wished I'd have been there with you.

This is when they actually engineered things to last! Lovely!

great stuff very well edited

Lovely film thanks for the effort. I did shudder as you reminded me of "handball" loads from that Dock! WD

A very nice film, thanks, my god, that tug don't aft shift.

Well done, , what a super Christmas watch! Especially with Fred's boys there too!

nice video. good editing, interesting story.

im amazed at the reaction time of going from full stop to ahead. Beautiful engine and vessel.

Hats off! That was one man-killer of a shovel! But I bet Kerne smells really sweet on steam coal... sweeter than err... um... that liquid fuel!

Thank you.

totally awesome!!!

Enjoyed, Thank you !!!

This has really good shots and cinematography. Also has great editing, informative graphics, and the filmmaker has an appreciation of the subject. Too bad the sound is unsynchronized from the video.

lovely vessel

30/1000 inches of piston wear in 100 years!!!!!!!!!! THAT is what we call engineering!

Used to operate a J.I. Case steam traction engine here in Alabama, it gets in your blood.

This is true living History

What a gorgeous old lady :)

Old school bad ass love that wheel.

Reminds me of trips on the Hay Scow Alma up to Petaluma as part of the volunteer crew. Feels the same. I think I'd be at home with your crew. Thanks for the excellent filming and production. My friend is part of the crew restoring the steam tug Hercules sent my to this. Cheers

Steamingly interesting!

Спасибо !!! Я получил реальное удовольствие от просмотра !!!

I kept waiting for you to tow something somewhere. A fun trip though for an old navy sailor.

Fascinating, before i retired i was a captain on tugs in the oil industry. They were far more powerful than this,though they lacked the charm.

Молодцы!!! Реальные пацаны !!! И ход хороший у катера .

Great film! She can certainly get a move on for an old girl. 2.39 - shocking ropework , made me cringe lol

Nice....

Cool film, just be careful not to sit on any of the three white plastic chairs on the back deck, those are suicide chairs, the legs bend and throw you off with even less than 100 lbs. Be Safe!

Lindo passeio

I just subscribed to your channel.

I am not a sea mariner and would like to learn more about the tugs fuel, its physical properties and the filtration on the tug. Thank you for an informative video.

I love the smell of coal smoke in the morning.🚢

God bless the Kerne. Pitch, rake and slice boys. What happened to L'pool thought it was a busy port back in the days of the elevated railway?

36.04. You know everything is alright when the crew is holding a brew.

u can tell she's a steamer. tall smoke stacks. my father was a tug capt in ny harbor. i rode on a few tugs. did shipwork etc. one tug called the celtic, she sank and all were lost. my dad steered her when she was owned by a previous company

kinda looking at it, the Liman2 tugboat in Turkey looks similar. Despite one being Dutch, from 1936, and Turkish.

Nice video i wonder iF that Little boat RAF Have a MRE rations meal inSide of it LoL

whole England is turning into a museum soon

Is it usual for an engine-room telegraph to be only one-way? I thought the engineer usually rang back acknowledging the order. Was that only on larger ships?

I totally loved this. One of my all time favorite movies is the African Queen... Not because of Kate and Bogi (Though that was a draw), but the Queen and that single piston engine and that ratty ass boiler. In my younger days I did a few years riding the rivers... Just to see what is was like. Making and breaking tows, making locks, the Monongahela, Ohio, Tom Biggby, Tennessee and the big MISS. Those were all on diesel or diesel electric tow boats where the helm control would be alien to a steam pilot. The telegraph for example... That took trust and coordination. Today the pilot controls everything from the helm with the flick of the wrist. Lost are the arts, Engineers, fireman, oilers ( the lowliest of low ), the trust of the mate to anticipate and the deckhands that trusted their mate. It took a "CREW" to run a steamer, not some jack legs hired off of the dock as temps!

One always associates steam power with belching chimney smoke, whether it be marine, train or stationary, yet Kerne seems quite 'clean' in this respect. Is there a particular reason for this? Newer more efficient boiler? 'Smokeless' coal?

24:25 Mike, you should invite the lovely young lady on to "Victoria", a boatman's dream

super

😁👍👏👏👏

I'm glad i don't have to shovel coal on the steamship I work on. Geeze

How can I come have a look at this tug? I hold a I/III Unlimited motor ticket, no steam but still interested in how these worked back in the day.

Anyone know what that weird noise is at 17:26 that kinda sounds like a spring or something?

Really quiet with steam power

Steam engines are so quiet. Must be a joy to run compared to diesel.