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German Steamships

Steamship Kapitän Meyer from Wilhelmshaven
Steamship Kapitän Meyer

Built in 1950 at Seebeck-Werft, Bremerhaven Germany
Call sign Measures in meter Tonnage Engine
kW 		Speed
Knots
Length Beam Draught Gross Net
DBHL 52.10 9.08 3.50 555   736 12
Two water tube boilers. 14 bar. Originally three burners in each boiler, today only one.
Two triple expansion steam engine, each 500 HP.

Steamship Kapitän Mayer in Flensburg
Steamship Kapitän Mayer in Flensburg during the Dampf Rundum 2006.
The steamship sailed several times with passengers on the Flensburg Fjord.

 

The engine room onboard Steamship Kapitän Meyer

Steam boiler manoeuvering desk
The boiler front and the manoeuvering desk for two water tube boilers.

 

Triple expansion steam engines
The manoeuvering place for the two triple expansion steam engines onboard the steamship.
The big wheels just below the engine-room telegraphs are used to reverse the main engines. The wheels have to be turned lots of turns to reverse the main steam engines from full ahead to full astern. A small single cylinder steam-engine is installed on each reversing-wheel to facilitate the turning of them.

Steamship Kapitän Meyer from Wilhelmshaven

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