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Steam boat - stock code 2338

A 22 foot steel-hulled day boat, currently moored on the Thames in Oxfordshire. Hull by Concoform Marine, built 1986, the engine is a 3 + 5 x 3 Leak compound, built 1999, piston valve HP, slide valve LP, Stephenson's reversing gear.

Vertical water-tube boiler with superheater by Franklin & Bell, working pressure 150psi, coal-fired and fed by mechanical and hand pumps.

The boat is in good running order although could use a little cosmetic tidying up, the engine and boiler have had very little use from new. The mooring may be available by separate negotiation.

Length 22 feet
Weight approx 3 tons