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Steam Pilot Lifeboat, SS Lady Forrest

Fremantle's First Lady...

SS Lady Forrest

Details
Donated by: Fremantle Port Authority (November l970)
Indented by: Harbour and Light Department, Fremantle
Designed by: W. Tregarthen Douglass, Maritime Institute, Westminster, U.K.
Date built: 1902-03
Built by: J. Samuel White and Company Ltd, East Cowes, Isle of Wight, U.K.
Built for: Fremantle Harbour Trust (now Fremantle Port Authority)
Date delivered to Fremantle: July 1903, on S.S. Fifeshire

Location: Western Australian Maritime Museum
Condition: unseaworthy
Restored: yes
Paint work: yellow funnel (pre 1947)
Paint work: black outboard, white inboard (1902)

Propulsion
Mode (I): wind and mechanical
Method: sail and engine
Rig: fore-and-aft, standing lug
Type (I): gunter sloop (1903)
Type (II): cutter (1940)
Engine (I): 226 horespower direct acting Marine Engine (1902)
Knots: 10.126
Boiler: White and Forster water tube type
Fuel: inverted compound surface condensing steam

Mode (II): mechanical
Method: engine
Engine (II): 144 horsepower, GMH Gray Marine (1947)
Knots: 9.5
Cylinders: six
Strokes: two
Fuel: diesel

Construction Details
Length overall: 17.23 m
Width: 4.6 m
Depth: 1.93 m
Light tonnage: 24.9 tonnes
Loaded tonnage: 32 tonness
Traverse bulkheads: nine
Watertight compartments: 13
Skin: 0.0035 m
Frames: 0.038 m x 0.028 m
Spread of frames: generally 0.406 m
 
Construction Materials
Fastenings: iron rivets
Fittings: forged iron
Superstructure: cockpit aft, machinery amid ships under raised casing
Deadwood: galvanized steel
Frames: galvanized steel
Skin: galvanized high tensile steel
Rudder: galvanized steel
Deck: galvanized steel
Deck beam: galvanized steel
Knees: galvanized steel.
Rigging
Spars: oregon
Standing: galvanized steel wire
Running: silver rope
Blocks: wood
Sheaves: steel
Mast height: 9.80 m
Rig height: 11.80 m
Sails carried: main and foresail (not held)
The Lady Forrest undergoing sea trials.
The crew of the Lady Forrest
The Lady Forrest alongside at Fremantle Port

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