Lars Josefsson. Steamesteem

Steamship Mariefred from Mariefred

Steamship Mariefred
Built in 1903 at William Lindbergs Varfs- och Mekaniska Verkstads AB, Stockholm Sweden
Call sign Measures in meter Tonnage Engine
kW
Speed
Knots
Length Beam Draught Gross Net
SFLE 32.84 6.33 2.31 159 71 257 10
Coal fired Scotch fire tube boiler with two furnaces.
Compound steam engine with Flodman's valve-gear.

Steamship Mariefred departing Mariefred
The Steamship Mariefred has sailed the same route, Stockholm - Mariefred, since the very beginning.

 

The engine room onboard Steamship Mariefred

Fire-tube boiler
The Steamship is firing up the boiler for a voyage. Both furnaces are firing and the scotch fire tube boiler's steam pressure rises slowly.

 

Compound steam engine
The Steamship compound steam engines manoeuvring place.

 

Flodman's reversing gear
The steamship high-pressure piston's crosshead and the Flodman's valve-gear.
The Flodman's valve-gear was, and still is, fairly common in swedish steamships.

Steamship Mariefred from Mariefred

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