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Author:	odysseus1980 [ July 19th, 2018, 5:36 am ]
Post subject:	Unknown British built Napier Deltic powered high speed vessel
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-high- ... 30507.html Does anyone has info for above vessel? All I know is that saying in Alamy webpage and that she was built by Thornycroft in 1960.

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Author:	graham [ July 19th, 2018, 6:22 am ]
Post subject:	Re: Unknown British built Napier Deltic powered high speed vessel
The layout of the guardrails would indicate that's its possibly a Pilot Boat Graham

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Author:	heuhen [ July 19th, 2018, 1:19 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Unknown British built Napier Deltic powered high speed vessel
They are passenger ship for Shell Venezuela, I belive they was used to transport crew around, basically a water Bus https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/shell ... zuela.html

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Author:	odysseus1980 [ July 19th, 2018, 8:07 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Unknown British built Napier Deltic powered high speed vessel
They were actually crew boats for Shell oil platforms in Maracaibo gulf. Any info for their specifications?

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Author:	Hood [ July 20th, 2018, 7:52 am ]
Post subject:	Re: Unknown British built Napier Deltic powered high speed vessel
More images of the PL3 can be found here: https://vads.ac.uk/results.php?page=3&c ... E=1&rpp=60 https://archives.imeche.org/archive/eng ... ine-napier It seems to be a well-photographed vessel, obviously the Napier publicity department went all out. The PL3 was built by John I Thornycroft Ltd.

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Author:	odysseus1980 [ July 20th, 2018, 12:30 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Unknown British built Napier Deltic powered high speed vessel
I have all her photos, any info about length, beam, displacement etc?

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