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A "Scotch" marine boiler (or simply Scotch boiler) is a design of steam boiler best known for its use on ships. Sectional diagram of a "wet back" boiler. The general layout is that of a squat horizontal cylinder. One or more large cylindrical furnaces are in the lower part of the boiler shell. Above this are many small-diameter fire-tubes ...
The Donner was launched on May 7, 1914, as hull number #134. She had a length of 524-feet, a beam of 54-feet and a height of 30-feet. She was built using the Isherwood System of longitudinal construction of ships, powered by a 1,900 horsepower triple expansion steam engine and fueled by two coal-fired Scotch marine boilers.
She was powered by a 2,200-horsepower (1,600 kW) quadruple expansion steam engine and fueled by two coal-fired Scotch marine boilers. [1] In 1913 the H.P. Bope was transferred to the Lackawanna Steamship Company of Cleveland, Ohio. Later that year the fleet was renamed Interlake Steamship Company. In 1916 the H.P. Bope was renamed E.A.S. Clarke.
Babcock-Johnson boiler: early production Johnson boilers operating at high pressures (850 psi [59 bar; 5,900 kPa]) and with water-wall ends to their furnace. [4] Babcock & Wilcox boiler; Babcock & Wilcox marine boiler; Bagnall boiler: a development of the launch boiler, with an enlarged furnace. Also known in agricultural use as the 'colonial ...
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SS Henry B. Smith was a steel-hulled lake freighter built in 1906 by the American Ship Building Company at Lorain, Ohio USA. The steamship was owned by the Acme Transit Company of Lorain, Ohio, under the management of William A. Hawgood. The hull number was 343 and the registration number was US203143.
She was powered by a 1,760 horsepower triple expansion steam engine and fueled by two coal-fired Scotch marine boilers. She was commissioned by the Minerva Steamship Company (managed by A.H. Hawgood) of Cleveland, Ohio. She entered service on October 13, 1906 clearing Cleveland, Ohio for Lake Superior. Her homeport was Fairport, Ohio.
In 1964, it became the very first American vessel to have an automated boiler system, manufactured by Bailey Controls of Cleveland, Ohio. In 1985, Cleveland-Cliffs sold its two remaining operating steamers to Rouge Steel Company, and gradually sold off its idle vessels until only SS William G. Mather remained, laid up in Toledo, Ohio where she ...