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Steamship Polstjärnan from Karlstad
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| Built in 1929 at Lindholmens varv, Gothenburg Sweden | |||||||
| Call sign | Measures in meter | Tonnage | Engine kW |
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| Length | Beam | Draught | Gross | Net | |||
| SMVR | 30.15 | 5.88 | 3,0 | 110 | 40 | 125 | 9 |
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| Scotch fire tube boiler with two furnaces. | |||||||
| Compound steam engine with Stephenson's link-motion. | |||||||
Steamship Polstjärnan at quay in Karlstad
The steam driven combined windlass and winch.
The engine room onboard Steamship Polstjärnan
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The picture to the left shows the eccentrics and their eccentric-rods for the Stephenson's link-motion.
The ship is built to sail in a lake and the feed water to the boiler is pumped from the lake and preheated before it enters the boiler. |
Steamship Polstjärnan from Karlstad
© 2007 Lars Josefsson Steamships
