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Steamship Engine Room

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This is an engine room drawing for an Edwardian era turbine steam ship, circa 1905 :) This was right at the beginning of turbine propulsion at sea, the steam turbine only being in use for about 2 decades :)

The engine room is of no particular ship, but is a general ocean liners engine room from 1905, Military ships having different machinery layouts and different instrumentation :)

The view shows a rather rudimentary control platform, with telegraphs, and control or "manoeuvering" wheels to control steam throttles for both the ahead and astern turbines, as well as several auxiliaries :) Early turbine ships used "direct" drive to the propellers rather than a reduction gearbox, which made the engines rather large and inefficient. Lusitania and Mauretania where never considered "efficient" ships in their heyday :(

I DO like the sense of embellishment, even for working spaces of the era, with fluted columns, skylights, hanging light fixtures. this would all change after WWI :(
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6599x5099px 6.19 MB
Make
Canon
Model
CanoScan 8800F
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taimdala's avatar
AMAZING!!! I stumbled upon your set quite by accident but I'm so very glad I did. THank you ever so much for posting these. They are just incredible. Thank you!