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St Vincent LK 272
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ally
, Nov 24 2011 07:24 AM
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going by the lum aft, and exhaust forward, very unusual arrangement for that type of boat..
that was the standard layout for a motorised zulu ,rudder-they always had an aft cabin and most of them when motorised had `wing engine with the tube and shaft through the quarter as the stern post wasn`t usually wide enough to take a tube unless built with a motor in mind
this would be before they made the stern posts substantial enough to take a prop shaft then??
like converted sailing boats being motorised?
have seen pics with wing engines ,hadnt realised they were set up like this to begin with..
like converted sailing boats being motorised?
have seen pics with wing engines ,hadnt realised they were set up like this to begin with..
looks just like pilot us lk271 scalloway built forbes of sandhaven built 1931
looks similar but pilot us has its engine aft and cabin forward,
had a look on trawler photos there typed in lk271 aft wheelhoose photo took in 2007 same as in the book fishing boats of scotland must have been twin boats, consectutive numbers as well.
type in pilot us on the search bit on here 2 good pics of pilot us there.
i think most motorised zulus had 2 engines i used to play on one that was layed up in eriskay the mystical rose when i was a wee boy she had 2 kelvins 2 cylinder and 1 cylinder both prop shafts through the quarters most were also petrol parrafin might also have somthing to do with the acuteness of the sternpost would be hard to get the right angle 
Caledonia PD160, lost with all hands south of Mallaig 1951, had a National main engine, with shaft through sternpost, and a small engine set on port side, with shaft through hull aft on port side, used when shooting herring nets.
Info from my late father who was on her a while. So seasick, he came shore to work.
Info from my late father who was on her a while. So seasick, he came shore to work.
there`s a cornish nickey (i think) in the ulster folk and transport museum in belfast-she is twin engine .one i think is a kelvin but she was later engined with a lister?-but the first engine was left in as a standby. twin engines instalations while i don`t know how common was certainly at least normal-my grandfathers zulu `fishers friend`was engined with a single engine which was brand new-but he was offered at the time a twin engine setup second hand-he took the new engine and it broke his heart!
