SS Robin

The Robin in the transfer on a pontoon

• Mary

The freighter Robin is a museum ship in the British Core Collection of the National Historic Ships Register.

History

Was built the ship in 1890 as Robin at the shipyard Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in Blackwall, London. After the launch on September 16, 1890 the hull was dragged to Scotland, where he was fitted with Gourlay Brothers, Dundee with boilers and steam engine. On 20 December 1890, the completed ship was put into service and wrong in the aftermath mainly on coastal routes around the British Isles, but also took occasional trips to the continent.

In 1892, Robin was sold for the first time, the shipowner Andrew Forrester Blackwater from Glasgow put the ship up to the year 1900 in the bulk shipping to the UK and Continental ports a.

At the turn of the century, the shipping company Blanco Hermanos y Cia from Bilbao earned the coastal steamer, baptized him into Mary and uses it to 1913. From 1913 to 1965, Maria went for the shipping company Hijos de Angel Perez y Cia from Santander. The last part of her active career spent Maria after a few conversions from 1965 to 1974 as a coal bunker ship in the service of shipping Eduardo de la Sota Poveda from Bilbao.

In 1972 the Maritime Trust was first aware of the Mary and in May 1974, shortly before it was to be scrapped, he acquired the ship worthy of preservation. The following month, the ship arrived under its own power in London's St Katharine Docks, where it was given back his first name Robin and after a restoration in the years 1974 and 1975 for many years found its permanent berth. After moving to the West India Docks the ship in the years 2008-2010 was fundamentally renewed in Lowestoft, before it was hauled to his current exhibition mooring, the Royal Docks in Newham 2011.

Technology

Was powered the ship by a three-cylinder triple expansion reciprocating steam engine with 45 kW of power. For steam production was a conventional hand -fed coal-fired boilers are available.

The hull is riveted. The complex fuselage overhaul of the years 2008 to 2010 took place as far as possible in this ancient art.

The two cargo holds are closed seaworthy with conventional hatch beams, wooden hatch covers and tarpaulins. The cargo gear consisted of derricks.