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Steam ice-breaker Wal from Bremerhaven

Steamship Wal form Bremerhaven
  Built in 1938 at Stettiner Oderwerken Germany
Call sign Measures in meter Tonnage Engine
kW
Speed
Knots
Length Beam Draught Gross Net
DBHK 50.00 12.35 5.25 662   883 12
 Two water tube boilers. 16 bar. Originally three burners in each boiler, today only one.
 Three cylinder triple expansion engine with Stephenson's reversing link motion.

Icebreaker Wal at quay in
Steam icebreaker Wal at quay in Flensburg.
She was in active service for the harbor authority at Rensburg for more than 50 years. Since 1990 she serves as a floating museum ship in Bremerhaven.

 

The engine room onboard SS Wal

Starboard water tube boiler
Starboard water tube boiler.

 

Low pressure piston's connecting rod
Low pressure piston's connecting rod and the red painted barring gear.


Steam ice-breaker Wal from Bremerhaven

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