Ship Simulator

English forum => Ship Simulator 2008 => Topic started by: beechjetkid17 on September 08, 2007, 19:26:46

Title: ship sealight
Post by: beechjetkid17 on September 08, 2007, 19:26:46

okay
in the sightseeing in hamburg mission with red jet 4 in the new patch, i looked aft and i see a classic tug i think...the ships name is sealight...it looks like a very nice ship...
does anyone know what this ship is/is for??

Title: Re: ship sealight
Post by: sonarman on September 08, 2007, 20:41:49

That's a Clyde Puffer designed by Simon Richardson. These small coasters used to carry essential supplies (like whisky) around the highlands and islands of Scotland.

They were immortalised by the author Neil Munro in "Para Handy tales" a very famous book in Scotland detailing the voyages of the SS Vital Spark. The book was the inspiration for the Ealing comedy "the Maggie", a fantastic 1960's and 70's BBC TV sitcom "The Vital Spark" and another TV series "Tales of Para Handy" in the 1990's.

Hopefully at some point she will become playable at some point and V-Step can make the Firth of Clyde area to sail her in, that would be "chust sublime" as Para would say.


You can find out more about puffers here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde_puffer)

Title: Re: ship sealight
Post by: beechjetkid17 on September 08, 2007, 21:26:17

thanks alot it just confused me a little bit