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Steam icebreaker Wal from Bremerhaven
Steamship Wal

Built in 1938 at Stettiner Oderwerken Germany
Call sign Measures in meter Tonnage Engine
kW 		Speed
Knots
Length Beam Draught Gross Net
DBHK 50.00 12.35 5.25 662 208 606 12
Two water tube boilers. 16 bar. Originally three burners in each boiler, today only one.
Triple expansion steam engine with Stephenson's link-motion.

Icebreaker Wal at quay in Flensburg
Steamship icebreaker Wal at quay in Flensburg.
The steamship was in active service for the harbor authority at Rensburg for more than 50 years. Since 1990 the steamship Wal serves as a floating museum ship in Bremerhaven.

 

The engine room onboard Steamship Wal

Water tube boiler
Starboard water tube boiler onboard steamship Wal.

 

Steam engine connecting rod
Low pressure piston's connecting rod and the red painted barring gear.

Steam icebreaker Wal from Bremerhaven

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