TOOT - TSS Ernslaw steamship Lake Wakatipu New Zealand

This part 2 of my New Zealand Trains 🚂 and Planes ✈️ Holiday videos.

In 10 days we traveled on 3 trains , the Trans Alpine , The Kingston Flyer and the Taieri Gorge railway, we flew in a helicopter to the top of a mountain above Franz Joseph Glacier and enjoyed the Warbirds Over Wanaka air show...and I'd forgotten to write that we also cruised across Lake Wakatipu to Walter Peak Sheep Station onboard the TSS Earnslaw , an Edwardian era coal fired steamship built in 1912.

General characteristics
Displacement: 330 L/T
Length: 51.2 m (168 ft)
Beam: 7.3 m (24 ft)
Draught: 2.1 m (6.9 ft)
Propulsion: Twin screw steamer, two sets of triple expansion 500 horse power jet condensing steam engines
Speed: 13 knots
Complement: 11 crew, 389 passengers
Notes: coal capacity 14 tons, boiler type and pressure=Locomotive style, 180lb per square inch.
Source Wikipedia

Here is a sort video I took of the ship arriving at Walter Peak station at the southern end of Lake Wakatipu

Captured with Sanyo Xacti camera and created in Windows Movie Maker by Stephen Somers

When I was a young boy my best friends dad was a former shearer at Walter Peak Station in the 1960's and had told us stories of the steam ships that were the lifeline to these farms isolated by mountains and lakes, there was no road access , so the only way supplies could come in and wool could go out was by water.

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This post is tagged as #TOOT - def: a short blast of a steam whistle