Steamship Freja af Fryken

SHJI	20.26	4.15	1.5	36	11	11
Built in 1869 Motala Mechaniska Werkstad
Call sign	Measures in meter			Tonnage		Engine kW	Speed Knots
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Scotch fire tube boiler with one furnaces.
Single cylinder steam-engine with valve-gear and expansion slide-valve.

Freja af Fryksta
Steamship Freja loaded with turists for a voyage on the lake Fryken.

The engine room onboard Steamship Freja af Fryken

Steamship Freja's fire tube boiler with one furnace

Singel cylinder steam engine
A front view of the single cylinder steam-engine onboard the Steamer Freja.
Motala Verkstad sent this 15 horsepower machine to the Paris World Exposition 1867 and won a gold medal. Later the engine was installed onboard the steamship Freja, at that time named Kalmarsund 3.

Slide valve rod and expansion slide rod Details of the famous engine onboard Steamer Freja.
The back side of the steam-engine valve gear and the expansion slide valve rod.
To the right is the expansion slide valve rod, linked from the quadrant.
The rightmost lever is used to adjust the expansion slide rod's length of stroke.

The Steamship Freja was foundered in 1896 and the wreck was salved 1997. When you see the steamship today you cant imagine that she has been on the lake-floor for 98 years of time.
With pomp and circumstance the steamer Freya left Fryksta, 23 July 1997, for her second maiden voyage.

© 2007 Lars Josefsson Steamesteem in a computerized world Still sailing steamships with steam engines and steam boilers.
Steamesteem means that I like steam boilers and steamships, paddle steamers as well as screw-propelled steamships.