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Swedish Steamships

Steamship Storskär from Vaxholm
Steamship Storskär

Built in 1908 at Lindholmens Varv in Gothenburg
Call sign Measures in meter Tonnage Engine
kW 		Speed
Knots
Length Beam Draught Gross Net
SGPD 38.95 7.03 3.00 256 102 412 13
Scotch fire tube boiler with three oil fired funaces
Triple expansion steam engine with Stephenson's link-motion.

Steamship Storskär moored at a quay in Stockholm






Stocholms steamships are very often moored with their bow to the quay.

 

The engine room onboard Steamship Storskär

Oil fired scotch fire tube boiler
The oil fired scotch fire tube boiler's three pressure jet atomized burners.

 

Tripple expansion steam engine
The top of the triple expansion steam engine. The high pressure slide-valve is a piston-valve and the intermediat- and low pressure slide-valves are D slide-valves.

 

Stephenson's link-motion

Stephenson's link-motion

This valve-gear consists of a pair of eccentrics, for ahead and astern running, a slotted segmental guide carrying a block attached to the valve rod. Variation of the quadrants position makes either eccentric effective.

Stephenson's link-motion
The eccentric rods and the quadrant are visible on the picture as well as the lever for adjusting the position of the quadrant.

 

Steam driven cooling water pumpCooling water pump driven by a singel cylinder steam engine.

Note the color of the pipes;
red = steam
yellow = condensate
green = sea water
blue = fresh water

 

A new boiler from Novikat Oy was installed in 1999

Fire tubes and combustion chambers
The corrugated fire tubes and the combustion chambers at the workshop.

 

Scotch steam boiler
The new Scotch fire tube boiler on its way to Steamship Storskär.

Steamship Storskär from Vaxholm

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