Swedish Steamships

Steamship Ejdern from Södertälje

Steamship Ejdern departing Mariefred.
She sailed in the archipelago of Gothenburg from 1880 to 1897 and from 1898 to 1905 on the lake Roxen. Finally she sails in the waters of Södertälje since 1906. In 1964 she was rescued from being scuttled and nowadays the museum society "Ångfartyget Ejdern" owns and runs her.

The engine room onboard Steamship Ejdern

The coal fired scotch fire tube boiler's front with its furnace.

At the rim of the furnace door one can see that the boiler is firing.

The maneuvering place is very narrow. The high pressure piston's slide-valve rod and the quadrants for the Stephenson's link-motion are partly visible on the picture.

The compound steam engine.
The low-pressure cylinder to the left with a cylinder-oil can on top of it.
Note that the steam-pipe is red painted in accordance with the old colour code.