Model RNLI Lifeboat - Tyne Class

Model Lifeboat RNLI RNLB Tyne Class - Ruby and Arthur Reed - Cromer

Scratch Built from orginal RNLI Imperial Plans.to 1/12 scale.

Large Model 47" long, 11"(33cm) wide by 30"(75cm) high including ariels.

Housing space in back and cockpit compartments for engines and gears.

Took 9 months to build and Hull tested for water resistance.

Due to size of model this will be a pick-up only from Norwich.

Will accept offers over £500

Email me for any further details.

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 Length of model corrected to 47 inches - Colin

Edited By Colin Bishop, Website Editor on 10/04/2013 18:51:06

Hi Norman if it's 37 inches long, it will have been built to 1:16th scale as the Tynes were 47' long and if built to 1:12, the model would also have been 47 inches long...........nice model just the same....and would go well with Slipways 1:16th Trent and Tamar boats.

neil.

Edited By neil howard-pritchard on 09/04/2013 22:30:28

Edited By neil howard-pritchard on 09/04/2013 22:31:28

Got to agree with Neil (and I'm RNLI myself), Tyne class are 47 footers, thats why their numbers are "47-006" etc the 47 is the boat length, in this case in feet.

Your previous posting was for a Mersey class, Norman, and their numbers are "12-012" etc the 12 being 12 metres, whereas the Oakley class numbered "37-016" their length being 37 feet. Could you have got your dimensions mixed before, as you were quoting 47' for a Mersey at 1/12 and now are quoting 37' for a Tyne at 1/12?

The new Shannons will be numbered "13-001" as they are 13 meters long. It's all in the numbers. So a 1/12 Shannon would be 42.6" or 1.083 metres.

Still, its a ery nice looking Tyne from your pictures, and although I was brought up on Oakleys and Merseys, in the Irish Sea we always think of the Tyne as the best sea boat - especially in a following lumper!

Kimosubby.

Hi Kimo...

the Shannon is in Fleetwood at the moment, having some slip plates fitted to her bum....she came in last night and will be craned out today.....friday she'll be heading over to your neck o' the woods...Isle of Man

Neil.

Hello Neil,

she's arriving here for my birthday, I'm qualifying for my bus pass on the 12th - so what's so glorious about that.

Hope to take a good look around, and who knows, might get a quick trip out too!

Cheers, Kim

Hi All,

Just got in and read the comments (emails) and yes you are all correct the model is 47" and not 37". I should have been more careful before publishing. Good to see people looking at my posting.

If there is a way to amend the original message, it is eluding me at the moment.

Regards
Norman

I have altered it for you - Colin

Edited By Colin Bishop, Website Editor on 10/04/2013 18:51:44

Kim
Check out that bus pass, mate. I was 60 over 16 months ago and I don't get my bus pass until September. Maybe the spare seat in the donkey cart from Douglas to Peel already has your name on it, in which case good luck and happy birthday!

Neil
I don't suppose you could persuade the cox to bring Shannon up the Trent to Beeston Marina? I've just bought a new camera.

Dave M

Edited By Dave Milbourn on 11/04/2013 08:40:03

Very jealous Neil - very.

Now hear she's not due here till Saturday at earliest, and then maybe not, just when we have a nice Irish Sea gale forecast too.

Dave, slightly different over here, once you hit the 60, all you have to do is fill out the form, available on-line, then take (yes take) in person to Douglas Sea Terminal complete with two photographs (so they can see its you) then wait a week for them to send back. Simple!

Hows the workshop? I got two new 1.5m LED tubes to replace old Hg ones, and all it says to do is remove and replace the starter with the supplied by-pass. Problem I have is there's the blasted ballast in there suppling power to both ends, whereas this tube is powered from one end. Oh, and no instructions either! The guy here just said "take it out."

Still, I'll enjoy tomorrow thank you, and see you on the circuit, Kimmo.

Have given up on waiting for the lighting panel mounting brackets to come from ROC - I think the donkey carrying them took a wrong turn at the lights in Istanbul. The guy who fitted the electrics is making me some from L-section ali, to my drawing, so we should be illuminated by about midsummer day! The LED panels have been here six weeks or so and they are superb. I just wish they weren't still in their boxes.........

DM