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Oil lamps by British Coal Mining Company, Den Haan & Weems & Plath

Oil lamps and onboard lighting using oil lamps may be a romantic lingering of the hey-days of ocean going seafarers. However, onboard Mad Dog Voyager we have several oil lamps and enjoy using them. The light, ambiance and warmth generated by these oil lamps creates an incredibly cozy and relaxing atmosphere onboard Mad Dog Voyager. While we have halogen main cabin lights on a dimmer and LED reading lights, nothing compares to a quiet night relaxing onboard or entertaining friends within the glow of the oil lamps.

A suggested practical application of the lamps is to use Citronella to ward of insects (this was also done in the old style pressurized PetroMax lamps)

We have several oil lamps on board from the following manufacturers:
1 British Coal Mining Company
2 Den Haan (DHR) marine oil lamp
3 Weems & Plath

Den Haan oil lamps:
They have some nicely designed oil lamps available. We have 2 Den Haan oil lamps that we bought at the same time. Their quality standards however were a disappointment. We have replaced our Clipper lamp (pictured below to the right) twice already, once because of a faulty oil burner and once because the threads of the oil burner to the oil reservoir became so tightly locked together that it was impossible to separate them.

The British Coal Mining oil lamp and the Weems and Plath oil lamp have worked flawlessly since the day they came on board.