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John H Amos is a tugboat paddlewheat built in Scotland in 1931. The last pull paddewewheel was built for private owners, now owned by the Medway Maritime Trust. He is one of only two surviving British built-up oars, the other being the Eppleton Hall preserved at the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park in San Francisco, California.

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Construction

John H Amos is assigned to the Commissioner of the River Tees Commissioner and built by Bow, McLachlan and Company Ltd. from Paisley, Scotland. He was named in honor of Secretary to Commissioner, John Hetherington Amos who died in 1934. Before finish Bow, McLachlan & amp; Co. went into liquidation and its pages were taken over by National Shipbuilders Securities (NSS). NSS completes the work using materials already available on the page, which results in variations to the design specifications: some parts where therefore better, while others are worse.

In the first steam, it was found that the used boiler could not provide enough steam for the diagonal compound machine, meaning that it could only reach 11 knots rather than the 13 knots in question. He finished in 1931 but Commissioner Tees Conservancy did not accept him for two years before the repair work was completed to bring him to the design specifications.

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Operation

Between 1940 and 1967, the period covered by the Daily Towage Records in Teesside Archives, he carried barges to dredgers and dumps, dredged dredges that did not have their own power, and moved the crew. He has six crew: master, mate, two engineers (one for each machine), a stoker and a deck deck.

Said to be an inefficient ship as a tug, he was given a certificate for 144 passengers to make it more useful. At the mouth of the Tees River is a jetty known as the Fifth Glow Light: as it approached the river, the ships had two lights on the line they knew they were on the right track. In the center of the structure is a building depicted as a dance hall, which belongs to Commissioner Tees, used by John Amos used to transport passengers.

There was a regular incident of alcohol smuggling in Tees, and in 1959 the ship was arrested for smuggling, after pulling some offshore barges into the river. The master was changed for a period, and the boat was taken to court, though no individual was eventually prosecuted.

Like all paddle steamers he has a shallow draft. When they hit the barge, they are always whipped together, and he usually uses only one paddle. Despite its width, the configuration allows efficient operation in shallow water designs, and hence why it works so long.

First conservation period

Withdrawn from service in 1967, two years later he was presented by Tees and Hartlepool Ports Authority to County Borough of Teesside for "The People of Cleveland." In December 1971 he was transferred from Middlesbrough to Stockton Corporation Quay, with plans to use trainees to change the attraction to a floating museum.

1976-99

As a result of the UK Government's reorganization of funding, youth-based project restorations were withdrawn and boats prepared for sale. Two entrepreneurs based on the Thames River, which operates a steam-powered steam fleet in the UK, bought a boat for £ 3,500. After a dispute in the board at the sale, he left Stockton witnessed by a crowd of 400 people with a Rule Britannia accompaniment played by a local brass band on March 4, 1976.

Renamed to Hero he became part of the International Towing Ltd (ITL) fleet, based in Gun Wharf, Chatham Dockyard. In late 1976, the partners divided ITL's fleet, and John H Amos moved from Gun Wharf to Milton Creek, and then Faversham Creek.

When HMS Endurance returned from the Falklands War, the Royal Navy offered the newly formed Medway Maritime Trust two buoys to tether their two ships.

The second conservation period

John H Amos then move to Anchor Wharf, Historical Shipyard. When the Dockyard Trust acquired the HMS Ocelot submarine, John H Amos moved to a new place where he sat on a submerged concrete slab. With hollow results, he drowned in his mooring. Happily, the shipyard's trust then agreed he could be tethered at the free launch site.

In November 1999, John H Amos was registered as part of the National Historic Fleet as a vessel of "National Significance of Superiority" and one of the most worthy vessels for conservation.

In 2001 ownership was transferred to the Medway Maritime Trust, with funding from the Science Museum. Aid restoration grants are provided from the Heritage Lottery Fund, the National Historic Ships, and the Rochester Bridge Trust.

Since it will slip in 2004, time and contract delays mean he lives on the slipway. In 2006, confidence was obtained from Narvik Portal , the remnants of the former HMS Tank Landing Tank Narvik . After earning money to pay for the John H Amos lift, in May 2009 one of Europe's largest sea cranes, GPS Atlas, raised John H Amos to Narvik Portal .

The couple is now moored on the side, at Chatham Docks, where the ship must be cleaned and recorded comprehensively, waiting for the restoration fund. In 2008, Chatham-born artist Billy Childish made several paintings from John H Amos , one of which shows the tug safely over the Narrow Portal Narrows pontoon, moored mid-river.

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References

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External links

• John H Amos at Medway Maritime Trust

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