Lars Josefsson. Steamesteem

British Steamships


Steam tug Kerne from London
Steam tug Kerene approaching the lock

Built in 1913 at Montrose Ship Building Company, Montrose, Scotland
Call sign Measures in meter Tonnage Engine
kW
Speed
Knots
Length Beam Draught Gross Net
  23.5 5.5 2.6 62.7 1.3 294 8
Scotch fire tube boiler with two coal-fired furnaces. 12.4 bar
Triple expansion steam engine with Stephenson's link-motion.

Steam tug Kerne in the lock entry
Steam tug Kerne in the lock entry

 

The engine room onboard Steamship Kerne

Steam engines link-motion
The Stephenson's link-motion, the crosshead and the connection rod for the intermediate pressure cylinder. The triple expansion engine was built at W.V.V. Lidgerwood, Coatbridge, Glasgow 1913

 

Steam boiler with two furnaces
The steam-tug's Scotch fire tube boiler was built at HM Dockyard, Chatham in 1935


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