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Category Story / Comics
Species Hyena
Size 799 x 978px
File Size 226.6 kB
Samuel Langhorne Clemens would have been right at home; he had a reputation as a bad-boy river pilot to rival any.
The one image that sticks in my mind is the rearing horse, resisting being loaded on the boat. Can anyone blame him?
I've heard of flour sacks being used to plug leaks before. It was actually a common enough occurrence during WWII, I knew a retired Merchant Marine who helped patch a Victory Ship the Nazis had shot through below the waterline. My brother temporarily patched leaking gas tanks with Fels' Naphtha Soap when he was a mechanic, and when the USS Nautilus sprung a leak, they used Porter Seal to patch it until they could limp home to Groton.
The one image that sticks in my mind is the rearing horse, resisting being loaded on the boat. Can anyone blame him?
I've heard of flour sacks being used to plug leaks before. It was actually a common enough occurrence during WWII, I knew a retired Merchant Marine who helped patch a Victory Ship the Nazis had shot through below the waterline. My brother temporarily patched leaking gas tanks with Fels' Naphtha Soap when he was a mechanic, and when the USS Nautilus sprung a leak, they used Porter Seal to patch it until they could limp home to Groton.
Here is another article with some details of the MV Ongarue which was the last of the riverboats to retire in 1958.
http://www.uniquelynz.com/whanganui.htm
The boat.
http://www.uniquelynz.com/nzdvc/dv15c32b.jpg
The screw in tunnel propeller.
http://www.uniquelynz.com/nzdvc/dv15c37b.jpg
http://www.uniquelynz.com/whanganui.htm
The boat.
http://www.uniquelynz.com/nzdvc/dv15c32b.jpg
The screw in tunnel propeller.
http://www.uniquelynz.com/nzdvc/dv15c37b.jpg
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