Lars Josefsson | Steamboat Swan Vesta

Steamboat Swan Vesta from Kiel

Steamboat Swan Vesta moored
Built about 1910 in GB
Call sign Measures in meter Tonnage Engine
kW
Speed
Knots
Length Beam Draught Gross Net
  7            
Coal fired vertical fire tube boiler.
Singel cylinder steam engine with Stephenson's link-motion.

Steamboat Swan Vesta
Steamboat Swan Vesta in preparation for a voyage.

 

The engine onboard Steamboat Swan Vesta

Swan Vesta steam boiler
The steamboat Swan Vesta's steam boiler.

 

Steamboat Swan Vesta's steam engine
Steamboat Swan Vesta's singel cylinder steam engine with Stephenson's valve-gear.
Wooden insulation on the steam engine's cylinder is very old fashion. I hope the owner will paint the pipes in the old fashion stile as well.


© Lars Josefsson  Steamesteem in a computerized world Still sailing steamships with steam engines and steam boilers.
Steamesteem means that I like steam boilers and steamships, paddle steamers as well as screw-propelled steamships.