Large Scale Model Boat - RC Clyde Puffer Model - Plank On Frame Build from Frame Kit

The Clyde puffer is a type of small coal-fired and single-masted cargo ship, built mainly on the Forth and Clyde canal, and which provided a vital supply link around the west coast and Hebrides of Scotland.

Built between 1856 and 1939, these stumpy little steamboats characteristically had bluff bows, crew's quarters with table and cooking stove in the focsle, and a single mast with derrick in front of the large hold.

The funnel and ship's wheel stood aft above the engine room, followed by a small captain's cabin in the stern. Typically in the period 1856 to approximately 1905 the Clyde Puffer's wheel was still in the open, but later a wheelhouse was added aft of the funnel giving the puffers their distinctive image.

Their flat bottom allowed them to beach and unload at low tide, essential to supply remote settlements without suitable piers. Typical cargoes could include coal and furniture, with farm produce and gravel sometimes being brought back.

The Clyde Puffer featured in short stories which Neil Munro first published in the Glasgow Evening News in 1905 and appeared in the newspaper for twenty years achieving widespread fame, with collections issued in book form from 1931 still in print today. With the continuing popularity of these tales, the puffers became film stars in The Maggie, and Para Handy with his Vital Spark was the subject of three popular BBC television series dating from 1959 to 1995.

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