Steamship Ejdern

Steamship Ejdern from Södertälje

Steamship Ejdern sailing
Built in 1880 at Göteborgs Mekaniska Verkstad, Gothenburg Sweden
Call sign Measures in meter Tonnage Engine
kW
Speed
Knots
Length Beam Draught Gross Net
SDVM 22.39 4.49 1.70 46 13 55 8
Scotch fire tube boiler with one furnace.  10 bar
Compound steam engine with Stephenson's link-motion.

Steamship Ejdern depating Mariefred
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

Scotch fire tube steam boilerThe coal fired scotch fire tube boiler's front with its furnace.

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

 

Steam engine maneuvering place
The Steamship Ejdern 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 Steamship Ejdern compound steam engine.
The low-pressure cylinder to the left with a cylinder-oilcan on top of it.
Note that the steam-pipe is red painted in accordance with the old colour code.

Compound steam engine

Steamship Ejdern from Södertälje

© 2007 Lars Josefsson  Steamesteem in a computerized world Still sailing steamships with steam engines and steam boilers