Lars Josefsson. Steamships

Swedish Steamships

Steamship Ejdern from Södertälje

S/S Ejdern
  Built in 1880 in Göteborgs Mekaniska Verkstad, Gothenburg Sweden
Call sign Measures in meter Tonnage Engine
kW 		Speed
Knots
Length Beam Draught Gross Net
SDVM 22.39 4.49 1.70 46 13 55 8
 Scotch fire tube boiler with one furnace.  10 bar
 Two cylinder compound expansion engine with Stephenson's reversing link motion.

SS Ejdern
SS Ejdern departing from Marifred.
She sailed in the archipelago of Gothenburg from 1880 to 1897 and from 1898 to 1905 on the lake Roxen. Finally she sails in the waters of Södertälje since 1906. In 1964 she was rescued from being scuttled and nowadays the museum society "Ångfartyget Ejdern" owns and runs her.

 

The engine room onboard SS Ejdern

The compound steam engine.
The low-pressure cylinder to the left with a cylinder-oil can on top of it.

The compound engine

The maneuvering place is very narrow.
The maneuvering place is very narrow.

The scotch boiler's front with its furnace.

 The scotch steam boiler

Steamship Ejdern from Södertälje

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