Worcester & Birmingham Canal - Lady Selsey
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Worcester & Birmingham Canal - Lady Selsey
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 7 Jul 2012
The trailable steamboat Lady Selsey is seen in pouring rain just after leaving Blockhouse Lock. She is a relatively new build to a traditional design and the owner built the vessel and steam plant himself. She has a vertical firetube boiler and an oscillating vee twin steam engine. The steam boiler feed pump has oscillating steam and pump cylinders.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.190437
Longitude
-2.214113