Trust History.

Hi all,

Just reading about education, indeed, no WW2 history taught when I was at school, but had relatives who were there and who had served post-war in the forces. However, now, it is being taught, we at the Medway Queen as part of our lottery application, have a programme of talks to schools, using properly checked people etc, and it is going great, talked to a whole school of 120 pupils the other day. I agree that we should get the story of coastal forces out there now, it can only help to keep the story of the contribution of these people to the fore.

JohnK

For several years it has annoyed me that HSL102 gets referred to as 102 as until it was restored MTB102 was referred to as 102. When HSL102 came on the scene we had to change the name of our trust to MTB102 Trust, change the bank account and all our literature to avoid confusion so can you all please use the full title of the HSL or I'll be looking for some torpedoes

Hi Don,

Thank you for the kind words, very much appreciated..

The July Newsletter shown on the front page will give you the information for which you ask, re the boats, Poole,EISCA etc.

Your point taken about getting some update onto certain parts of the site, will do.

We have just completed the AGM with some considerable success, 21 members and partners attended, and I will put the Directors report on the site next week.

More news re S130 about March next year. She is now privately owned.

S130 we have no further news from EISCA.

FMB43957 we are going for a new installation, as getting a 50+year old engine etc, particularly after our loses in the Hythe fire, with parts backup, will not be possible. In addition emmission control will in all probability mean the old engines cannot be used.

Thanks again.

Richard

Thanks for that Tramontana. We have had the VHF problems as well.

I am in complete agreement re engines. It would take a lot of very technical info to convince me to use fire damaged blocks of any kind. Heat distortion is a "funny" thing but no laughing matter when you get problem after problem in use. Something modern and with slightly more power in the same space so it is not working flat out all the time has got to be better.

Richard.

Excessive heat on a crankase which is in itself a load/torque bearing "Structure" can cause problems re-shaft alignment, the only other time the casting will reach above that temp  is when it is cast. The cure is to let the casting rest or de-stress which is why when you went past a foundry there were castings laid outside (it was not a problem with internal storage) in fact B.M.W. performance dept use to encourage it's employees to go outside and pee on it's racing crankcases. How's your boilers johnk are you planning to replace them? the last steam job I went on a month ago had "square" boilers. As far as sponsership is concerned some people were under the impression that the H.S.L. and certainly the M.G.B. were bought on behalf of the Trust and were owned by the Trust not privately owned as they turned out to be which gave the impression that the trust name was being used as a "Trojan Horse".