Steamboat Sirius from Murten

	11.3	2.8	1.0			22	5.4
Built in 1908 by Deurer & Kaufmann, Hamburg, Germany
Call sign	Measures in meter			Tonnage		Engine kW	Speed Knots
Call sign	Length	Beam	Draught	Gross	Net	Engine kW	Speed Knots
Three-pass fire tube boiler with one coal fired furnace. 12 bar
Twin cylinder steam engine with Stephenson's link-motion.

Steamboat Sirius steaming ahead.

The steam boiler onboard Steamboat Sirius

Steamboat Sirius steam boiler
The steam boiler onboard the steamboat Sirius was built in 1968 by Kerag in Richterswil CH.

Steamboat Sirius boiler front
The steam boiler's front aboard Steamboat Sirius.

Boiler furnace
The Scotch boilers coal fired furnace.

The engine onboard Steamboat Sirius

Steamboat Sirius twin cylinder steam engine
The port side of the steamship's twin cylinder steam engine. The engine was built in 1895 by Simpsons & Denison UK.
The two cylinders are of equal size and therefore the steam just expands only one time. Twin cylinder steam engines are not very common since engines with two cylinders mostly are compound engines, where the steam expands in two steps.

© 2010 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.