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Dutch Steamships

Steamship Elfin from Wormerveer
Steamship Elfin sailing in Holland

Built in 1933 by J.Samuel White & Co Ltd Cowes, UK
Call sign Measures in meter Tonnage Engine
kW 		Speed
Knots
Length Beam Draught Gross Net
  32.0 7.5 2.4     183 9.5
Scotch fire tube boiler with two oil fired furnaces. 10 bar
Two compound steam engine with Stephenson's link-motion.

Steamship Elfin departing a harbor in The Netherlands
Steamship Elfin departing

 

The stokehold onboard Steamship Elfin

Boilers stokehold
The furnaces are on the fore side of the boiler and therefore a stokehold is required.
The stokers are about to light up one of the two oil fired burners.

 

The engine room onboard Steamship Elfin

Engine room with two compound steam engines
The manoeuvring place for the two compound steam engines. Notice the quadrants and the eccentric roads for the Stephenson's link-motion

Steamship Elfin

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