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German Steamships


Steamship Alexandra from Flensburg

Steam ship Alexandra
  Built in 1908 at Werft Janssen & Schmilinski, Hamburg Germany
Call sign Measures in meter Tonnage Engine
kW
Speed
Knots
Length Beam Draught Gross Net
DJAB 36.96 7.17 2.7 140 55 309 12
 Scotch fire tube boiler with two furnaces.
 Two cylinder compound expansion engine with Klug reversing gear.

SS Alexandra ready for departureThe saloon steamer Alexandra ready for departure from Flensburg.
She was launched in April 1908 and sailed under the ownership of "Vereinigten Flensburg- Ekendsunder und Sonderburger Dampfsschiffsgesellschaft". She was in service until 1975, when she was withdrawn as unprofitable.

 

The engine room onboard SS Alexandra

The boiler front with two furnaces.
The boiler with its two coal-fired furnaces.

 

Maneuvering place for the steam engine.
Maneuvering place for the compound expansion steam engine.

 

Steam engine
The compound expansion steam engine. The low-pressure cylinders connecting rod and its crosshead.


Steamship Alexandra from Flensburg

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