Steam tug Nalle from Oskarshamn

Steam tug Nalle from Oskarshamn

Steam tug Nalle from Oskarshamn
Built in 1923 at Oskarshamns Mekaniska Verkstad, Oskarshamn Sweden
Call sign Measures in meter Tonnage Engine
kW
Speed
Knots
Length Beam Draught Gross Net
SMUO 21.60 6.50 2.80 68   184  
Oil fired Scotch fire tube boiler with two furnaces.
Compound engine with Stephenson's link-motion.

 

Steam tug Nalle moored at quay in OskarshamnSteam tug Nalle moored at quay in Oskarshamn.

The society Föreningen S/S Nalle bought the steam tug Nalle in 2000 to be used as a museum-ship in Oskarshamn.

 

The engine room onboard steam tug Nalle

Scotch marine steam boiler
The scotch marine steam boiler with two rotary cup burners

© 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.