M.V. Hambledon. Grimsby Dock.

[spawney]

ve been doing some work on the M.V. Hambledon that's berthed at Grimsby Royal/Alexandra Dock and was allowed to take some photos. It weighs 112 tons, is 22m long and is powered by a 4 cylinder Lister Blackstone marine turbo diesel engine that puts out 330bhp @ 750rpm.

Wheelhouse.

Depth plotter.

Radar terminal.

Rudder indicator.

Compass & engine indicators.

Horn control. I so wanted to have a play with this

Wheelhouse telegraph.

Diesel filters.

Manual diesel pump.

Main engine. Being repaired.

Auxiliary engine.

Engine room telegraph.

I'll have some more photos of the engine room soon, a lot of the ones I took in the engine room were blurry from the vibration from the auxiliary engine running.

 

[Neosea]

That boat has some nice fittings. What were you doing in the crankcase?

 

[spawney]

That boat has some nice fittings. What were you doing in the crankcase?

The main engine has just had service and clean out, it was overheating due to scale build up in the cooling system.

 

[Neosea]

The main engine has just had service and clean out, it was overheating due to scale build up in the cooling system.

I used to work on pleasure craft so its cool to see commercials in various states of repair.

 

[Sabtr]

Very interesting. I worked for a while as a deckhand on a fishing trawler out of the Port of Blyth in Northumberland. Although the trawler I worked on was smaller at 37ft long and 36 tons it had many similarities to this one.
There's nothing better than being in an engine room with an engine working.

 

[worldoftheshadows]

She looks like one of the old ex-Admiralty fleet tenders?, Did a job on a 70' tug last year with a massive turbocharged air-start Ruston & Hornsby main engine - cant beat proper british engines!

 

[spawney]

She looks like one of the old ex-Admiralty fleet tenders?, Did a job on a 70' tug last year with a massive turbocharged air-start Ruston & Hornsby main engine - cant beat proper british engines!

Well spotted, She's a ex R.N. tender (Clovelly Class)
A tug like this one?

 

[Seahorse]

I used to work on pleasure craft so its cool to see commercials in various states of repair.

You didn't have a Raytheon maintenance contract by any chance, did you?

 

[worldoftheshadows]

she was a foreign boat - http://www.tugphotos.co.uk/pages/chiefton30.htm

Bakers who own it have got a lot of ex-Admiralty stuff too that was moored up alongside us & i had a look around, including some stuff that was built by dunston at thorne http://www.tugphotos.co.uk/pages/joan.htm

I'm into any ex navel stuff really - currently rebuilding a 52ft Harbour Launch/Pinnace from 1965


Dave

 

[spawney]

I'm into any ex navel stuff really - currently rebuilding a 52ft Harbour Launch/Pinnace from 1965

That sounds like a cool project

 

[Neosea]

You didn't have a Raytheon maintenance contract by any chance, did you?

No sorry. Having problems?

 

[worldoftheshadows]

That sounds like a cool project

Theres a few pictures in my gallery: http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/album.php?albumid=38 (finger's crossed it the right url).

 

[Seahorse]

No sorry. Having problems?

Nah, I just used to work for a company that did. And when you mentioned pleasure craft, I just wondered was all.

 

[Squirrelking]

Wow...

So tiny...

Mind you the last engine room I was in was a 315000GRT VLCC. Nice to see what lies at the other end of the scale though, good report

 

[spawney]

One surprising thing about this boat I've found out is that when the engine is running at tick over it uses two litres of diesel a minute