Stoom in Dordt (May 26th - 27th, 2018)
Steam on the Water

This is one of a series of pages which I have uploaded to illustrate facets of steam rallies we have attended in the UK and now the Netherlands. Such events occur all over the country in the summer months, they are easily found by using your favourite search engine and may have anything between a handful of steam engines and hundreds (as at the Great Dorset Steam Fair which could probably be fairly described as having an excess of riches). Click here for the Stoom in Dordt 2018 index and click here for the overall index for 2018.

Owing to our travel arrangements from the UK which involved leaving home at 07.00 and arriving in Dordrecht at 21.00, we missed the impressive steam parade on the river on the Friday night. I had no time to systematically photograph the exhibits, but just grabbed shots in passing. Several of these steam ships were giving half hour rides and visits to the engine room were generally possible. On our first visit, there was simply no time for more because until the rain came there were long queues for the rides. We had a ride on 'Dockyard V' the steam kit of which I photographed in some detail and also the Baggermolen Friesland..

I would be very surprised if we were not back again in 2020, these boats merit a more detailed study, it's a marvellous opportunity to see so many steam powered vessels gathered in one place.

Steam Powered Boats

We made two 'close up' visits, there are links below, but you can also click here for them.

Some of the links below are in Dutch, just right click (in Chrome) and select 'Translate to English"...

Many of the links below are to this comprehensive Dutch site - http://www.stoomvaart.nl/vereniging.html 

See also this comprehensive photo report and links to video from the 2014 event - http://www.ipernity.com/doc/288839/album/668467/@/page:2:18.

Phil Barnes has supplied some pictures from the 2014 event (updated 21st November 2018)

The following were listed in the Stoom in Dordt 2018 programme but evaded my camera, we saw most of them in passing, several are shown in Phil Barnes' 2014 photoreport:

• Christian Brunings 

• Dockyard IX

• George Stephenson

• Hudson

• Hugo

• Jansje

• Roek 

• Scheelenkuhlen 

	Name	Notes
	Adelaar	1925 Triple expansion, coal fired. More information  Another picture and an excursion with Adelaar (look well down for pictures of the engine room). Youtube video.
	Dockyard III	1941 Lentz valve, oil burner More information  Information on the 'Dockyard' tugs - http://www.castlesoftheseas.nl/dockyard-s-1940-s-1.html.
	Dockyard V	Click here for more information and pictures of the steam equipment from our visit. More information  Information on the 'Dockyard' tugs - http://www.castlesoftheseas.nl/dockyard-s-1940-s-1.html.
	Elfin	1933. Twin compound  More information
	Furie	Triple expansion More information  More information (as part of a sales pitch for a model)
	Hercules	1915 Compound, coal burner  More information
	Jan de Sterke	1913 Compound, coal burner More information  More information (and picture)
	Maarten	1927 Compound, coal burner More information  More information (and pictures)
	Pieter Boele	1893 Triple expansion, oil burner More information  Many pictures  More information (as part of a sales pitch for a model)
	Volharding 1	1929 Compound, oil burner More information  Plenty of information
	Vulcania	More information - link to http://www.vapeur-vulcania.ch/historiquebateau.htm broken by 1st November 2018. This boat has a Calliope fitted, you can hear it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVZcJ87nVz0
	Y8122	1936 Compound, oil burner More information
	Grain Elevator 19	1915 Compound, coal burner More information
	Heibok 4	1916 coal burning More information
	Baggermolen Friesland	1936 Horizontal stationary steam engine, oil burner  Click here for more information and pictures of the steam equipment from our visit.. More information