Steamship Mariefred from Mariefred

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 engine with Stephenson's link-motion.

Steamship Mariefred departing Mariefred
The Steamship Mariefred has sailed the same route, Stockholm - Mariefred, since the very beginning. Very little has been changed on board and she still uses her original steam engine.

 

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 Mariefred compound steam engines manoeuvring place.

 

Flodman's valve 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.

© 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.