Steamship Polstjärnan from Karlstad

SMVR	30.15	5.88	3,0	110	40	125	9
Built in 1929 at Lindholmens varv, Gothenburg Sweden
Call sign	Measures in meter			Tonnage		Engine kW	Speed Knots
Call sign	Length	Beam	Draught	Gross	Net	Engine kW	Speed Knots
Scotch fire tube boiler with two furnaces.
Compound engine with Stephenson's link-motion.

Steamship Polstjärnan moored in Karlstad
Steamship Polstjärnan at quay in Karlstad

Combined steam driven windlass and winch onboard Steamship Polstjärnan.

The engine room onboard Steamship Polstjärnan

Scotch marine steam boiler with two furnaces
The Steamship Polstjärnan Scotch fire tube boiler with two furnaces.

The picture to the left shows the eccentrics and their eccentric-rods for the Stephenson's link-motion.

The Steamship Polstjärnan is built to sail in a lake and the feed water to the boiler is pumped from the lake and preheated before it enters the boiler.

© 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.