"small shop and various donations were made. At their Annual General Meeting of 17 December 1856, it was passed that the Castletown Steam Navigation Company should donate £10 to this cause. (equivalent to £ in ) SS Ellan Vannin (1854) SS (RMS) ""Ellan Vannin"" was an iron-built packet steamer which was operated out of Castletown, Isle of Man for the Castletown Steam Navigation Company (also referred to as the Castletown Steam Packet Company) to Liverpool and Whitehaven. Her name, Ellan Vannin, came from the Gaelic term by which the Isle of Man is known. ""Ellan Vannin"" was built by John"
"was the 100 hp Quarry Bank Mill water wheel near Manchester. A high breastshot design, it was retired in 1904 and replaced with several turbines. It has now been restored and is a museum open to the public. The biggest working water wheel in mainland Britain has a diameter of 15.4 m and was built by the De Winton company of Caernarfon. It is located within the Dinorwic workshops of the National Slate Museum in Llanberis, North Wales. The largest working water wheel in the world is the Laxey Wheel (also known as ""Lady Isabella"") in the village of Laxey,"
"Isle of Man. It is in diameter and wide and is maintained by Manx National Heritage. Development of water turbines during the Industrial Revolution led to decreased popularity of water wheels. The main advantage of turbines is that its ability to harness head is much greater than the diameter of the turbine, whereas a water wheel cannot effectively harness head greater than its diameter. The migration from water wheels to modern turbines took about one hundred years. A recent development of the breastshot wheel is a hydraulic wheel which effectively incorporates automatic regulation systems. The Aqualienne is one example. It"
"Port Ellen Port Ellen () is a small town on the island of Islay, in Argyll, Scotland. The town is named after the wife of the founder, Frederick Campbell of Islay. Its previous name, ""Leòdamas"", is derived from old Norse meaning ""Leòd's Harbour"". Port Ellen is built around Leodamais Bay, Islay's main deep water harbour. It is the largest town on Islay, only slightly larger than Bowmore and provides the main ferry connection between Islay and the mainland, at Kennacraig. The Port Ellen Distillery was first established in the 1820s and ceased production of Scotch whisky in 1983. The large"
"Baffin Island Baffin Island ( , ), in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, is the largest island in Canada and the fifth-largest island in the world. Its area is and its population is about 11,000 (2007 estimate). It is located 65.4215 N and 70.9654 W. Named after English explorer William Baffin, it is likely that the island was known to Pre-Columbian Norse explorers from Greenland and Iceland and that it was the location of ""Helluland"", spoken of in the Icelandic sagas (the Grœnlendinga saga and the Saga of Erik the Red, Eiríks saga rauða). Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut, is"
"""Fenella"" in order to undergo her rebuild, on Friday 19 January 1883. Rebuilt in 1883, her size was increased to 375 gross register tons and her speed to . She was renamed (the Manx translation for ""Mona's Isle"") on 16 November 1883, following her conversion to a propeller-driven ship. ""Ellan Vannin"" was a twin-screw vessel driven by a two-cylinder compound steam engine made by Westray, Copeland and Co. at Barrow. Her boiler pressure was raised to . She was capable of carrying 300 passengers and normally had a crew of 14. ""Ellan Vannin"" primarily operated out of Ramsey to Whitehaven,"
"is a great 50-ft waterwheel which was used to operate, through a flat rod 1.25 miles long, a 14-in pump at Parkyn's china clay works at Temple. This wheel was made at Hawarden in 1865 and shipped to Laxey, Isle of Man; after use in the silver mines there it was dismantled and brought to Wadebridge by sea and rail, then hauled to Durfold by traction engine and re-erected. The parish church (Norman with some later mediaeval work) is dedicated to Saints Hyacinth and Protus. (Locally the saint would be called St Pratt rather than Protus.) Dr Sidney J. Madge"
"""Avalon"", now known as the ""Belle of Louisville"", and on the ""Delta Queen"". It also features a steam calliope, made by the Frisbee Engine Company, that has 32 notes. The wheel is made of white oak and steel, is by , and weighs 26 tons.[2] The whistle came from a ship that sank in 1908 on the Monagabola River. It was launched from Braithwaite, Louisiana. It is long and wide. It has a draft of six feet and weighs 1384 tons. It's mostly made of steel, due to United States Coast Guard rules.[3] In 1982 the ""Natchez"" won the Great"
"has been expanded to suit the needs of the museum. When the museum was built in 1997, it cost £5.5 million. One of its most notable attractions is ""Odin's Raven"", a recreation of a Viking longboat in two-thirds scale. Odin's Raven was made in Norway and then sailed to Peel, arriving on 4 July 1979 as part of the High Court of Tynwald's millennium celebrations. House of Manannan The House of Manannan is a museum on the Isle of Man. It is named after the ""great mythological sea god"" Manannan and covers the island's history and current situation. The Manx"
"owned by Elona Maritime Ltd, a company based in Malta, but registered at Piraeus, Greece. Artwork on the ship included two reliefs by ceramic artist Åsa Hellman. On April 5, 2007, at around 16:00 EEST (13:00 UTC) the ship ran aground on a well-marked volcanic reef east of Nea Kameni, within the caldera of the Greek island of Santorini, began taking on water, and listed up to 12 degrees to starboard before her watertight doors were reportedly closed (a report which was later refuted when the wreck was examined). The 1,195 passengers, mostly Americans and 60 Canadians, were initially all"
"story of the Ellan Vannin, a picket ship which sank in the Irish Sea on its way between the Isle of Man and Liverpool on 3 December 1909. The romantic date of February 14th (St Valentine's Day) replaced this and stayed, while the year changed to 1886 and then 1899 for the final release. This was a major work and it took a few sessions to get a take they liked. The lyrics are written in the stream-of-consciousness style, telling the story of the survivor of a fictitious British ship called ""Veronica"", floating on an iceberg in the Baltic Sea."
"water wheel of its type, but likely the most powerful. A larger water wheel is at Laxey on the Isle of Man and at Greenock, Scotland, the latter supplied by Shaw's Waterworks with water from an elevated reservoir. The Burden Wheel appears to have had more buckets. The Burden Water Wheel was sixty-two feet in diameter and twenty-two feet in breadth, was supplied by a small stream, the Wynantskill Creek. Burden originated a system of reservoirs along the Wynantskill Creek to hold the water in reserve and increase the water-supply to power the mills. Burden's wheel weighed 250 tons and"
"Yellow lady"", 1986 POOLBEG Hugo Hamilton: The Island of Talking, 2007 Kevin Barry: ""Beatlebone"", 2015 Achill Island Achill Island (; ) in County Mayo is the largest of the Irish isles, and is situated off the west coast of Ireland. It has a population of 2,700. Its area is . Achill is attached to the mainland by Michael Davitt Bridge, between the villages of Gob an Choire (Achill Sound) and Poll Raithní (Polranny). A bridge was first completed here in 1887, replaced by another structure in 1949, and subsequently replaced with the current bridge which was completed in 2008. Other"
"Cornwall Island (Nunavut) Cornwall Island is a small island in the high arctic region of the Canadian territory of Nunavut. It is near the geometric centre of the Queen Elizabeth Islands. To the north, it is separated from Amund Ringnes Island by Hendriksen Strait. To the south, it is separated from Devon Island by Belcher Channel. It is the largest of six islands (the others being Buckingham, Ekins, Exmouth, Graham Island, and Table) in the Norwegian Bay, west of Ellesmere Island. Cornwall Island measures about long and wide, and has an area of . The tallest peaks are McLeod Head"
"Postage stamps and postal history of the Isle of Man This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of the Isle of Man. The Isle of Man is a self-governing British Crown dependency in the Irish Sea between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland. The island is about 32 miles long and, at its widest, 14 miles wide. It has been inhabited for over 8,500 years. The capital is Douglas. English is the main language spoken but the island has its own Manx language which is of Celtic origin. The Isle of Man parliament, known as"
"there is the Torres del Paine National Park. Hanover Island Hanover Island (Spanish: ""Isla Hanover"") is an island in the Magallanes Region. It is separated from the Chatham Island by the Esteban Channel, Guías Narrows and Inocentes Channel. In popular fiction the island is featured in Jules Verne's book 'Two Years' Vacation'. The book tells the story of 15 boys (aged between 8 and 14) from Auckland, New Zealand, who spent 2 years on this remote island as result of a storm, which cast their schooner upon the island's shore. There it is called ""Chairman Island"" after the name of"
"is also known as Classical Gaelic. Many of the island's placenames are Norse in origin, e.g. Laxey, Ramsey, and so are some of the island's institutions e.g. Tynwald (""Þingvóllr""). A few Norse inscriptions remain. There seems to be evidence that the island once spoke a form of P-Celtic before it became Gaelicised. There is little evidence of this in placenames however. Latin and French have been used in ceremonial purposes, e.g. legal use, and mottos, as in the UK. Languages of the Isle of Man The main language of the Isle of Man is English, predominantly the Manx English dialect."
"in office was not distinguished by any great public works, save that of the Laxey Wheel which was named in honour of his wife, Lady Isabella. However of particular note is Governor Hope's devotion to duty during the serious cholera outbreak which occurred during his governorship; his visit to the village of Port Erin, at that time severely ravaged by the disease, being such an instance. The general opinion of Governor Hope's time in office was that of a firm, yet mild administrator who had brought about many minor reforms.During Governor Hope's tenure, the Isle of Man was visited by"
"microbiological colonies known as hypoliths, from their tendency to take hold under (""hypo"") stones (""lith""). Cornwallis Island (Nunavut) Cornwallis Island is one of the Queen Elizabeth Islands, part of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut in the Canadian Arctic. It lies to the west of Devon Island and at its greatest length is about . At in size, it is the 96th largest island in the world, and Canada's 21st largest island. Cornwallis Island is separated by the Wellington Channel from Devon Island, and by the Parry Channel from Somerset Island to the south. Northwest of"
"during 1921-22. Enterprise Island Enterprise Island or Isla Lientur or Isla Nansen Norte or North Nansen Island is an island that is long and lies at the northeast end of Nansen Island in Wilhelmina Bay, off the west coast of Graham Land. Today, a visit to Enterprise Island is often part of Antarctic cruises. Enterprise Island and Nansen Island were first charted as one feature and named ""Île Nansen"" by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Adrien de Gerlache in 1898. The islands became well known to whalers operating in the area in the early 1900s and the names North Nansen"
"hours of being caught. Onboard fishmeal plants process the waste product so everything is utilized. The world's largest freezing trawler by gross tonnage is the 144-metre-long ""Annelies Ilena ex Atlantic Dawn."" In 2015, the ""Annelies Ilena"" was detained by the Irish Navy and the Sea Fisheries Protection Agency for breach of regulations. The owners were subsequently fined 105,000 Euros for illegally fishing in Irish waters. She is able to process 350 tonnes of fish a day, can carry 3,000 tons of fuel, and store 7,000 tons of graded and frozen catch. She uses on board forklift trucks to aid discharging."
"Devon Island Devon Island (Inuit: ""Tatlurutit"") is an island in Canada and the largest uninhabited island on Earth. It is located in Baffin Bay, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is one of the larger members of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, the second-largest of the Queen Elizabeth Islands, Canada's sixth-largest island, and the 27th-largest island in the world. It comprises (slightly smaller than Croatia) of Precambrian gneiss and Paleozoic siltstones and shales. The highest point is the Devon Ice Cap at which is part of the Arctic Cordillera. Devon Island contains several small mountain ranges, such as the Treuter Mountains, Haddington"
"as a tourist attraction but the Manx Electric Railway to the northeast is a commercially operated railway system though its operation is closer to that of a tramway than a railway. The Snaefell Mountain Railway, climbs the island's main peak and has a gauge of ; it is the sole operating Fell Incline Railway System in the world. Around 1935 narrow-gauge railways consisted of 536 km (335 miles) of gauge, 432 km (270 miles) of gauge and 48 km (30 miles) of gauge. One public, one museum and some industrial peat railways survive. 158.8 km of narrow-gauge lines remain, although"
"Hanover Island Hanover Island (Spanish: ""Isla Hanover"") is an island in the Magallanes Region. It is separated from the Chatham Island by the Esteban Channel, Guías Narrows and Inocentes Channel. In popular fiction the island is featured in Jules Verne's book 'Two Years' Vacation'. The book tells the story of 15 boys (aged between 8 and 14) from Auckland, New Zealand, who spent 2 years on this remote island as result of a storm, which cast their schooner upon the island's shore. There it is called ""Chairman Island"" after the name of the boys' boarding school. On the continental side"
"Enterprise Island Enterprise Island or Isla Lientur or Isla Nansen Norte or North Nansen Island is an island that is long and lies at the northeast end of Nansen Island in Wilhelmina Bay, off the west coast of Graham Land. Today, a visit to Enterprise Island is often part of Antarctic cruises. Enterprise Island and Nansen Island were first charted as one feature and named ""Île Nansen"" by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Adrien de Gerlache in 1898. The islands became well known to whalers operating in the area in the early 1900s and the names North Nansen Island and"
"other for flight control and aerial operations. The islands can take on each other's function in an emergency. ""Queen Elizabeth"" was named at Rosyth on 4 July 2014, by Elizabeth II, who said that the warship ""marks a new phase in our naval history"". Instead of smashing the traditional bottle of champagne on the hull, she used a bottle of whisky from the Bowmore distillery on Islay. The ceremony was attended by the Duke of Edinburgh (the Lord High Admiral), Admiral George Zambellas (First Sea Lord), senior naval officers from the United States and France, and by politicians including David"
"with several directors of the Castletown Steam Navigation Company being onboard after accepting the vessel from John Laird & Co. For the town of Castletown it was described as a joyous occasion. Shops in the town were closed, numerous flags were flown and ships in the harbour were adorned with bunting. One flag at the company’s offices displayed the ancient armorial symbol of the Isle of Man, with the motto ""We are Progressing"" and on the reverse side ""Success to our Steamer"". To signal the ""Ellan Vannin’s"" arrival small cannon were placed at different points – one at the stack"
"rotates enough to invert the buckets. The overshot design is very efficient, it can achieve 90%, and does not require rapid flow. Nearly all of the energy is gained from the weight of water lowered to the tail race although a small contribution may be made by the kinetic energy of the water entering the wheel. They are suited to larger heads than the other type of wheel so they are ideally suited to hilly country. However even the largest water wheel, the Laxey Wheel in the Isle of Man, only utilises a head of ~30m. The world's largest head"
"1982 she operated as ""Olovaha"" in Tonga and from 1982 to 1987 as ""Gulf Explorer"" as a casino ship in Australian waters. She was renamed ""Queen of the Isles II"" in 1987 when cruising off the Great Barrier Reef. Renamed ""Island Princess"" in 1992 and ""Western Queen"" in 1994, she ran aground at Ranadi beach, Honiara, in the Solomon Islands around 2001. In 2010 the hull was cut away to the waterline, the remainder still left there. Queen of the Isles Queen of the Isles was a passenger ferry built for the Isles of Scilly Steamship Company in 1964 by"
"Wheel of Liverpool The Wheel of Liverpool is a transportable Ferris wheel installation on the Keel Wharf waterfront of the River Mersey in Liverpool. Also known as the Echo Wheel of Liverpool due to its close proximity to the Echo Arena Liverpool, the wheel was opened on 25 March 2010. The structure is tall, weighs 365 tonnes and has 42 fully enclosed capsules attached. The wheel had been planned for three years by the company Great City Attractions. They submitted a planning application which explained that it would increase tourism in Liverpool. A smaller observation wheel had been operational in"
"an original 19"" gauge line that served the mines, reconstructed in recent times be a group of enthusiasts. Manx Electric Railway stations Dumbell's Row Halt Dumbell's Row is an intermediate stopping place on the Manx Electric Railway on the Isle of Man and is the first on the northern section of the line from Laxey, opened in 1899. The stop serves the village and is the nearest tram stop to the Laxey Wheel and lies to the north of the village's main station. Nearby is located next to a siding which is now used to house the line's permanent way"
"and maintenance duties. At the upper terminus, linking the railway to the Laxey Wheel, once operated the Laxey Browside Tramway but this has long since vanished, replaced with a car park. Great Laxey Mine Railway The Great Laxey Mine Railway was originally constructed to serve the Isle of Man's Great Laxey Mine, a lead mine located in Laxey. The gauge railway runs from the old mine entrance to the washing floors along a right of way that passes through the Isle of Man's only remaining railway tunnel (another at Dhoon West Quarry is disused) under the gauge Victorian Manx Electric"
"local materials. The most original line produced is water wheels. The workshop helped renovate three old watermills and the idea grew from there. The normal size is one-and-a-half metres across, but they make them as big as three metres. And they are all made from local larch wood. The company has found a niche market at the intersection of tourism, the environment and science education, and also fabricates items such as Archimedes' screws, which make popular hands-on exhibits at a local water theme park. The waterwheels are GBL’s trademark, but its high skills base means that the enterprise can fabricate"