Steamship Saltsjön from Stockholm

Steamship Saltsjön from Stockholm
Steamship Saltsjön
Built in 1925 at Eriksbergs Varv in Gothenburg Sweden
Call sign Measures in meter Tonnage Engine
kW 		Speed
Knots
Length Beam Draught Gross Net
SGEO 37.51 7.08 2.10 250 113 330 11
Scotch fire tube boiler with three oil fired furnaces. 11 bar
Compound engine with Flodman's valve-gear.

Steamship Saltsjön moored at a quay in Stockholm
Steamship Saltsjön moored at a quay in Stockholm.

 

The engine room onboard Steamship Saltsjön

Steam boiler with three rotary cup burners
The scotch fire tube boiler with its three rotary cup burners. Two of them just drawn out.

 

Steam engine
The Steamship Saltsjön compound engine's manoeuvering place.

© 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.