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Swedish Steamships

Steamship Storskär from Vaxholm

SS Storskär depatrting Stockholm's harbor
 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
 Three cylinder triple expansion engine with Stephenson's reversing link motion.

Steamship Storskär






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

 

The engine room onboard SS Storskär

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

 

The top of the tripple expansion steam engine
The top of the triple expansion steam engine.

 

Stephemnsens link motion


Stephenson's reversing link motion
It consists of a pair of eccentrics, for ahead and reverse rotation, connected to the ends of the quadrant, a slotted segmental guide carrying a block attached to the valve rod. Variation of the link position (known as linking-up) makes either eccentric effective.

The eccentric rods and the quadrant are visible on the picture as well as the lever for adjusting the position of the quadrant.

 

A new boiler from Novikat Oy was installed in 1999

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

 

Scotch steam boiler with three fire-tubes
The boiler on its way to SS Storskär.

Steamship Storskär from Vaxholm

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