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'After fireroom of the SS America, showing three of the six B&W boilers installed'
In preparation for my next cruise I got hands on the book 'Steam it's Generation and Use - The Babcock and Wilcox Company' (37th edition, 2nd print)
A very nice book giving a very general overview on 'steam' with a small chapter on marine appications where I found beside other photos and drawings (passenger ships: exterior view of the United States, America and Independence) this nice picture - I guess a good excuse to start a thread on the SS America.
[ 06-10-2006: Message edited by: Ernst ]
I would have loved to have toured the operating engine/boiler room of an operating steam ship. Unfortunately, I never got the chance.
The closest I came to it was back in the 1980's when Captain Rolf Bassenburg of the then named "Caribe I" (now Regal Empress) gave me a tour of that ship's engine room. Of course, she was (is) powered by diesels, not steam.
Garnett
One tour that stays in my mind is from the OCEANIC--the 1st Engineer was proud of the clean condition of the engine room, and told us that it was "so clean, you could eat off the floors--but we wouldn't let you because you'd get the floors dirty!"
Rich
This was when her interiors, while in a state of chaos, were still intact. I remember finding racks and racks of drinking glasses all with the USLines logo etched on them; and almost all of them broken. I did manage to come home with a car load of stuff though.....
-Russ
quote:Originally posted by Linerrich:One tour that stays in my mind is from the OCEANIC--the 1st Engineer was proud of the clean condition of the engine room, and told us that it was "so clean, you could eat off the floors--but we wouldn't let you because you'd get the floors dirty!" Rich
It still is and today's Chief Engineer is still proud.I had the chance to visit the engineroom and boilerroom on the seaday between Tunis and Barcelona.
Willem
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