Steamship Freya from Kiel

DJHK	51.60	11.50	2.29	452		150	5
Built in 1905 at J.&K. Smit, Kinderdijk Holland
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 one furnaces. 10 bar
Compound engine with Stephenson's link-motion.

Paddle Steamship Freya at quay in Flensburg

Paddle steamer Freya moored in Flensburg
The paddle steamer Freya is provided with auxiliary propulsion. The ship has an additional screw propeller driven by means of a 400kW diesel engine, that increases the speed to 8,5 knots.

The engine room onboard Steamship Freya

Steamship Freya's boiler
The paddler steamer Freya's Scotch steam boiler.

Paddle steamer Freya burner
The paddler steamer Freya's pressure atomizing oil burner.

Steamship Freya's Crankshaft
The Compound engine crankshaft.

Compund engine valve-gear
The steam engines valve gear, the Stephenson link-motion.

Compound engines manoeuvring place
The compound engine onboard the paddle steamer Freya was installed during refurbishment 1926. This steam engine comes from a steam dredger, at the time it was not possible to find a more powerful engine with larger paddlewheels.

© 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.