Swedish Steamships

Steamship Bohuslän from Gothenburg

Steamship Bohuslän departing Karlshamn.

The engine room onboard Steamship Bohuslän

The boiler front with two of the three fuel oil burners visible. The burners are firing and the engine-room telegraph is in "full ahead" position; the triple expansion steam engine is running at full speed and the Steamship Bohuslän is sailing at twelve knots.
The steam boiler is fired and operated from the engine room. A steamship of this size normally doesn't have a separate boiler room.

In the background, the condenser cooling water pump; a centrifugal pump driven by a single-cylinder steam engine.
To the right, a duplex piston pump and valve arrangements for the pumps inlet and outlet sides.

Some pipes are still panted in accordance with the old color code; red for steam, yellow for condensate, blue for fresh water, green for sea water... This color code was very common on steamships.

The feed-water plunger pump, the air pump and the bilge plunger pump are driven by links from the high-pressure piston's crosshead.

The condenser's flanged end to the right.
Down to the right: An air dome to reduce the pulsation in the water line.