Lars Josefsson. Steamesteem

Steamship Southern Actor from Sandefjord
Steamship Southern Actor on the river in Gothenburg
Built in 1950 at Middlesbrough
Call sign Measures in meter Tonnage Engine
kW 		Speed
Knots
Length Beam Draught Gross Net
GKJF 45.3 8.4 5.4 439   1300 9.5
Two Forster & Wheeler water tube boilers.
Triple expansion steam engine with Stephenson's link-motion.

 

The engine room onboard Steamship Southern Actor

Steamship Southern Actor's engine room
The whaler steamship Southern Actor's manoeuvering place.
The big wheel to the left is used to reverse the main engine. The wheel had to be turned lots of turns to reverse the steamship from full ahead to full astern. A small steam-engine was installed to help the engineer to turn it fast. The eccentric for that machine is visible to the left of the wheel.

Steamship Southern Actor from Sandefjord

© 2009 Lars Josefsson  Steamesteem in a computerized world Still sailing steamships with steam engines and steam boilers