HMS Sultan's Super Sentinel Steam Waggon

HMS Sultan's Super Sentinel Steam Waggon The Super Sentinel Steam Waggon, registered number DX 9048, is now 95 years old. Then she went back to Browns and laboured on with planks of wood until 1937.

She started life right at the end of the '20s and was first owned by W M Brown, West Country wood transporters, in 1930. Soon after DX 9048 was built, Sentinel's Shrewsbury works began producing steamers with conventional gear-boxes and differentials to keep up in a market becoming more and more preoccupied with petrol power. At the end of her third year, DX 9048 went back to Sentinel at Shrewsbur

y to have her acetylene lighting system replaced by a 12 volt electrical system, and her solid rubber tyres swapped for pneumatics. She spent the war idly; there wasn't coal to spare to fire her and in 1953 she reached a low ebb when she was acquired by J W Hardwick & Sons, a firm of scrap merchants. That could have been curtains for the old steamer; petrol and diesel trucks were now far more versatile and powerful, but the Suez crisis intervened. DX 9048 was readied for service again since she was one of Britain's few self-propelled vehicles that required oil for no more than lubrication. But she never fired a shot in anger. The powers-that-were said she wasn't economical. But now, at least, she had been refurbished. In 1960 she was sent on permanent loan, to HMS Sultan in Gosport, Hampshire. Here is where she assumed the role she still plays today. A decade later, when they'd done a good deal of painstaking restoration work on the old Sentinel, the Navy acquired her for a knock-down price - £1250. Nowadays she's worth considerably more to the right buyer, which represents a tidy capital gain on the 1929 ex-works price of £692!

Afternoon Run Ashore
02/09/2026

Afternoon Run Ashore

Evening all the waggon will be on the road up to end of December, bookings are welcome for run ashore and Christmas run ...
13/08/2026

Evening all the waggon will be on the road up to end of December, bookings are welcome for run ashore and Christmas run ashore

Question for everyone shorter the stroke more steam oil it puts in or longer the stroke more steam oil it puts in ?
07/08/2026

Question for everyone shorter the stroke more steam oil it puts in or longer the stroke more steam oil it puts in ?

Family day
06/08/2026

Family day

What do you think to the conversion, 8 wheeler lol
06/08/2026

What do you think to the conversion, 8 wheeler lol

HMS Sultan’s Super Sentinel steam waggon participating Rowner Carnival 2026Rowner Carnival 2026
26/07/2026

HMS Sultan’s Super Sentinel steam waggon participating Rowner Carnival 2026

Rowner Carnival 2026

Round 2 run ashore
25/07/2026

Round 2 run ashore

Friday run ashore
24/07/2026

Friday run ashore

Thank you for The Worshipful Company of Fuellers for there donation every year it helps massively out.Absolutely amazing...
22/07/2026

Thank you for The Worshipful Company of Fuellers for there donation every year it helps massively out.
Absolutely amazing day taking out all the different types of Worshipful company for a ride on the old girl

Afternoon run ashore
15/07/2026

Afternoon run ashore

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HMS Sultan, Military Road
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PO123BY

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