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National Grid Community Day

24/5/2019

 
Welcome to a ​National Grid - Grain LNG - Community Day on board PS Medway Queen.
​The photos showing progress made are arriving here faster than I can get them on the website! Absolutely fantastic.
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Thanks to a team of volunteers from the National Grid - Grain LNG Medway Queen has received a much needed "wash and brush up". The volunteer task force descended on the ship at 8:30 on Friday 24th May and carried out a wide variety of jobs for us.
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The atmosphere was fantastic and supervised and supported by Mick Appleyard, Ron Vant & Judith Maguire, the volunteers were split into small working teams and did a fabulous job of:
  1. Gangway - Jet off plant growth on gangway & apply non-slip tape.
  2. Gangway - Replace ship access gangway netting with scaffold scrim.
  3. Skylights - Clean brass work on sky lights. Sand & stain skylight frames.
  4. Skylight covers - Repair sky light covers and paint.
  5. Quarter deck ladder - Remove poop-deck ladder, clean, sand and stain.
  6. Engine Room - Wire brush piston securing mounts and steel ladder and apply red oxide primer.  Clean painted engine parts and control gear of dust & grime.
  7. Sponsons - Jet sponsons clean of plant growth.
  8. Aft promenade - Apply silver paint top coat on aft’ steel plates.
  9. Forward bollards – wire brush and paint.
  10. Bow Rudder wheel mounting – wire brush and paint.
  11. Footpath between carparks – level out designated walkway surface with chippings.
 Maurice C, Layla W & Andy H also helped with painting cleaning and ‘gofer-ing’.
Judith Maguire.
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The pictures above were all taken in the first couple of hours or so of the day's work!
​If you are local come down on Saturday and see the difference for yourself. 
With very grateful thanks to all of the Community Team from National Grid at Grain LNG for their hard work, support and enthusiasm and to Judith Maguire for organising the work program and taking the photographs.

Keeping up the Good Work

19/5/2019

 
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The volunteers are still hard at work to make the ship presentable and, more importantly, to get to a condition where we can hire the vessel out as a venue and get more income from it.

The deck lamps were installed as part of the electrical systems upgrade and the main deck in the forward saloon now looks too good to be true!

The deck has been caulked, sanded and sealed to meet hygiene requirements. Further coats of sealant may be needed. When the galley fittings are complete we'll be able to provide teas and snacks on board as an added attraction.

When the current work programme is finished we'll have a smarter visitor attraction, better visitor facilities and an ability to hire the saloons out between times. This will result in the "Saturday Team" becoming much busier and an added administrative workload for the society. We need more volunteers in these roles, especially from those who live locally and can commit to giving up a few hours of their time. GET IN TOUCH PLEASE

​Photos: Judith Maguire and Joe Stokes

Wheels of Time

14/5/2019

 
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Its a while now since PS Medway Queen joined the "Wheels of Time" scheme at the launch event at the Royal Engineers' Museum (below). Our "Saturday Team" reports a good start as we are visited by more local families with a desire to learn more of the ship's history and the part she played as a seaside pleasure steamer and wartime mine-sweeper.

Medway Queen is open to visitors on Saturdays from 11am to 4pm (last admissions at 3pm). Bring the family along to collect the "Wheels of Time" badges and see the progress we are making on the ship's restoration.. Click on the logo (left) for more details of "Wheels of Time".
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