Lars Josefsson. Steamesteem

Swedish Steamships

Steamship Norrskär from Vaxholm
Steamship Norrskär

Built in 1910 at Eriksbergs mek. verkstad, Gothenburg Sweden
Call sign Measures in meter Tonnage Engine
kW 		Speed
Knots
Length Beam Draught Gross Net
SGFD 34.84 6.85 3.50 227 92 257 11
Scotch fire tube boiler with three oil fired funaces. 13,5 bar
Compound steam engine with Flodman's valve-gear.

Steamship Norrskär moored at a quay
Steamship Norrskär moored at a quay in Stockholm. This is the common way to moor the steamships in Stockholm.

Steamship Norrskär by night
The Steamship Norrskär arriving Stockholm from a late summer evening voyage.

 

The engine room onboard Steamship Norrskär

Scotch fire tube boiler
The Scotch fire tube boiler with its three pressure atomized oil burners.

 

Compound steam engine
Almost the entire engine room. The compound steam engine in the middle and the Scotch steam boiler to the left. Not the TV-screen at the top of the engine. A TV-camera is mounted on the bridge so the engineer can see what happen in front of the ship.

Steamship Norrskär from Vaxholm

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