Steamship Alexandra from Flensburg

DJAB	36.96	7.17	2.7	140	55	309	12
Built in 1908 at Werft Janssen & Schmilinski, Hamburg
Call sign	Measures in meter			Tonnage		Engine kW	Speed Knots
Call sign	Length	Beam	Draught	Gross	Net	Engine kW	Speed Knots
Scotch fire tube boiler with two furnaces.
Compound engine with Klug's valve-gear.

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 The steamer was in service until 1975, when she was withdrawn as unprofitable.

The engine room onboard Steamship Alexandra

Steam boiler with two furnaces
The Scotch fire tube boiler with its two coal-fired furnaces onboard steamship Alexandra.

Steam engine maneuvering place
Maneuvering place for the compound steam engine onboard the Steamship Alexandra.

The compound steam engine. The low-pressure cylinders connecting rod and its crosshead. The Scotch fire tube boiler is visible in the backbround.

© 2007 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.