The General Blog • SS Explorer

Making Mooring Lines

02/11/2021 No Comments

Elementor #4997

04/10/2021 No Comments

Victoria Swing Bridge

07/09/2021 No Comments

Wear and tear

22/05/2021 No Comments

Why did the deck rot?

20/05/2021 No Comments

Heritage at home – The Wellington Trust

17/03/2021 No Comments

Culture and heritage: Edinburgh economic recovery panel

28/01/2021 No Comments

Historic Vessel Restoration Project of the Year 2020

09/12/2020 No Comments

Fire Warden Training

27/10/2020 No Comments

Fire detectors (again)

12/10/2020 No Comments

Daisy chained fire detectors fitted

06/10/2020 No Comments

Breathing Apparatus 1950s style

25/09/2020 No Comments

Ultrasound Hull Thickness Study

24/09/2020 No Comments

Secret Edinburgh

10/09/2020 No Comments

Website upgrade

05/09/2020 No Comments

Merchant Navy Day 2020

03/09/2020 No Comments

Annual General Meeting 2020

03/09/2020 No Comments

Summer Technical Bulletin

31/08/2020 No Comments

Rookies error?

23/08/2020 No Comments

Covid 19 volunteer induction

22/08/2020 No Comments

Historic Ship Conference 2020

21/08/2020 No Comments

13 Historic Ships granted funding from National Historic Ship UK.

30/07/2020 No Comments

COVID 19: Safely reopening the SS Explorer

09/07/2020 No Comments

Secret Unusual Edinburgh

25/06/2020 No Comments

Day of the seafarer, seafarers of the past support the seafarers of today.

25/06/2020 No Comments

SS Explorer’s first major press release for 2020

24/06/2020 No Comments

First online Summer STEM Academy features a fasinating SS Explorer activity

15/06/2020 No Comments

Get involved in World Oceans Day and help save our oceans.

08/06/2020 No Comments

Volunteers week, a thank you to all our fantastic volunteers

01/06/2020 No Comments

Back to Work

30/05/2020 No Comments

SS Explorer wins 1 of 4 National Historic Ships UK New Regional Virtual Flagship Awards.

29/05/2020 No Comments

FLAGSHIP OF THE YEAR AWARDS 2020

28/05/2020 No Comments

Explorer meets Scotia

19/05/2020 No Comments

Fantastic Historic Ship Visitor Attraction Appeals for Help

15/05/2020 No Comments

School at home fun activities

11/05/2020 No Comments

Explorer Enthusiasts take part in fun pub quiz

07/05/2020 No Comments

#museumfromhome

30/04/2020 No Comments

Obituary. David N MacLennan

27/04/2020 No Comments

Technical Bulletin I1-V2

27/04/2020 No Comments

Work on Historic ship PS Waverley Progresses

22/04/2020 No Comments

A message from the deputy chair

03/04/2020 No Comments

A new member from Poland

16/03/2020 No Comments

A request from the Citadel Arts Group

18/01/2020 No Comments

Tallys

14/01/2020 No Comments

The Talking Funnel

11/01/2020 No Comments

Monkey Island Progress

17/12/2019 No Comments

Status report Mr Sulu

03/12/2019 No Comments

The telegraph

28/11/2019 No Comments

Stream-line

16/11/2019 No Comments

Scottish Marine Lab.

09/11/2019 No Comments

Kent Screen

29/10/2019 No Comments

Anodes

26/10/2019 No Comments

The monkey island continues…..

22/10/2019 No Comments

https://radiosummerhallreviews.wordpress.com/2019/06/13/sea-changes-at-leith-festival/

20/10/2019 No Comments

The huffduff

11/10/2019 No Comments

A Very Big Thank You……..

05/10/2019 No Comments

The Megger

03/10/2019 No Comments

The Avometer

01/10/2019 No Comments

Thrust meter

21/09/2019 No Comments

Geekery of the day: The Telegraph

20/09/2019 No Comments

Decca

19/09/2019 No Comments

VIC 32 steaming in the Caledonian Canal

19/08/2019 No Comments

Press

12/08/2019 No Comments

Sea Changes

05/06/2019 No Comments

The Association of Retired Fishermen- North Shields

18/05/2019 No Comments

An outbreak of……

14/05/2019 No Comments

Stage two complete

23/04/2019 No Comments

Another former crew member.

16/04/2019 No Comments

Then and now.

13/04/2019 No Comments

A Dreich Day

16/03/2019 No Comments

Main Deck Passageway

15/03/2019 No Comments

Monkey Island. Let the renovations begin.

29/01/2019 No Comments

Diesel Tanks

26/01/2019 No Comments

The Big Top

26/01/2019 No Comments

Swan visit

19/01/2019 No Comments

The Monkey Island (If anyone has expertise in aluminium corrosion control, can you get in touch please)

15/01/2019 No Comments

The Big Top gets bigger.

18/12/2018 No Comments

Erecting Tents

05/12/2018 No Comments

The big top progress

17/11/2018 No Comments

Protection for the Monkey Island

10/11/2018 No Comments

Special Commeration Service

05/11/2018 No Comments

Harbour Generator

13/10/2018 No Comments

Farewell Brian Murdoch

11/09/2018 No Comments

You want Decking?

01/09/2018 No Comments

Arctic Corsair

05/08/2018 No Comments

National Fishing Heritage Centre and MV Ross Tiger

03/08/2018 No Comments

Chairman’s Report

07/07/2018 No Comments

Annual General Meeting

30/06/2018 No Comments

Welcome aboard Halina and Steve

23/06/2018 No Comments

Friends of the Maritime Heritage Trust

19/06/2018 No Comments

Forth Ports open day at Leith Docks

16/06/2018 No Comments

What connects the SS Explorer to the Rainbow Warrior?

14/06/2018 No Comments

A busy and productive day…

12/06/2018 No Comments

Thursday visitors

07/06/2018 No Comments

Fishroom workshop

04/06/2018 No Comments

Monkey Island

31/05/2018 No Comments

Maid of the Loch visit

28/05/2018 No Comments

I declare this…….

01/05/2018 No Comments

Leith market and the fishroom

28/04/2018 No Comments

SHIP AHOY!!!

21/04/2018 No Comments

George Slesser

17/04/2018 No Comments

A couple of newspaper articles……

16/04/2018 No Comments

The Granton Hub

14/04/2018 No Comments

Leith Sea Cadets visit the SS Explorer

07/04/2018 No Comments

Fishroom refurb.

03/04/2018 No Comments

William Speirs Bruce @ the Granton Hub

28/03/2018 No Comments

Menzies & Co. Ltd

27/03/2018 No Comments

A busy day on the SS Explorer

24/03/2018 No Comments

Grimsby Telegraph

24/03/2018 No Comments

In further news, the monkey island.

13/03/2018 No Comments

Sir Andrew Cubie

13/03/2018 No Comments

Key Cupboard

11/03/2018 No Comments

The Radar

06/03/2018 No Comments

The Fishroom.

28/02/2018 No Comments

PPE needle gunning.

24/02/2018 No Comments

Explorer features in The Grimsby Telegraph

20/02/2018 No Comments

Going, going, gone.

28/01/2018 No Comments

Why Steam? Further to my last, an update courtesy of John Dunn

27/01/2018 No Comments

Why Steam?

27/01/2018 No Comments

Herring Larval Surveys on Explorer by John Dunn

26/01/2018 No Comments

SSEPS Invades Aberdeen

22/01/2018 No Comments

A Busy Day on Explorer.

20/01/2018 No Comments

⚓️⚓️⚓️Nancy Glen⚓️⚓️⚓️

20/01/2018 No Comments

George Wood

17/01/2018 No Comments

Edinburgh Dock Then And Now And The Future.

17/01/2018 No Comments

Ve Haf Ze Plans!

15/01/2018 No Comments

A Net Drag Formula for Pelagic Nets

11/01/2018 No Comments

Tuesday 9th January 2018

09/01/2018 No Comments

Radio Room Clock

04/01/2018 No Comments

Diesel Transfer Pump

02/01/2018 No Comments

Gales.

31/12/2017 No Comments

Contemporary photo album and complete and utter nerd album added.

28/12/2017 No Comments

In Service Photo Gallery

23/12/2017 No Comments

Festive frolics

19/12/2017 No Comments

Explorer’s successor.

11/12/2017 No Comments

Leith Market

10/12/2017 No Comments

SS Explorer. Spying for Her Majesty’s Navy?

05/12/2017 No Comments

Explorer, The Spy Trawler!

05/12/2017 No Comments

Skiving

05/12/2017 No Comments

Liberation of stores.

29/11/2017 No Comments

Ten volunteers today!

28/11/2017 No Comments

New link

17/11/2017 No Comments

The Carpeted saloon.

07/11/2017 No Comments

The Computer

04/11/2017 No Comments

Salvesen

01/11/2017 No Comments

Apache II

29/10/2017 No Comments

Another concrete repair.

24/10/2017 No Comments

Several layers of carpet……

21/10/2017 No Comments

One of our highly skilled technicians…….😆

17/10/2017 No Comments

Cooking by gas.

03/10/2017 No Comments

Poppy

17/09/2017 No Comments

More cement.

12/09/2017 No Comments

SS Explorer nearly meets her end!

11/09/2017 No Comments

Gangwaaaay

10/09/2017 No Comments

Check out…..

30/08/2017 No Comments

Cement box complete

20/08/2017 No Comments

Corrody leak water.

15/08/2017 No Comments

A productive day’s planning.

12/08/2017 No Comments

Explorer’s replacement

08/08/2017 No Comments

AGM

01/07/2017 No Comments

Castle Fraser Steam Fair and Portsoy Boat Festival

25/06/2017 No Comments

Bon Accord Steam Rally

15/06/2017 No Comments

Sealing the leaks

13/06/2017 No Comments

Water damage.

10/06/2017 No Comments

Niagra on board

07/06/2017 No Comments

A shorter gap

02/05/2017 No Comments

A long blog gap

14/02/2017 No Comments

Ongoing maintenance

22/11/2016 No Comments