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Ryhope Pumping Station. The Ryhope Engines Museum is a visitor attraction in the Ryhope suburb of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England.. The Grade II* listed building is a popular landmark in Ryhope and is based at The Ryhope Pumping Station, operational for 100 years before closing in 1967.
The engine room included a large 2-cylinder compound steam engine and two Scottish boilers, each with two fire passages. The ship had a four-bladed iron propeller of around 3.5 meters in diameter. [3] [4] The ship had several skull blocks and corve nails in the railing, indicating that it was also a sailing ship. [3]
Within the village is a large Victorian, Gothic Revival former Water pumping station, designed by Thomas Hawksley for the Sunderland and South Shields Water Company. [2] The engine house contains a pair of 72" single-acting non-rotative Cornish beam engines by Davy Bros of Sheffield, dating from the 1870s when the complex was built.
The company was established in 1848 by George Clark as a general engineering concern based in Sunderland. [2] It built its first marine engine in 1854. [2] In 1938 it was acquired by Richardsons Westgarth & Company who merged the business with North Eastern Marine ('NEM'), another engineering concern which had been founded in 1865 at South Dock in Sunderland and which they had also acquired ...
The engine shop at Doxford's shipyard during the Second World War: the diesel engine of a merchant ship is undergoing tests. Doxford was a major British shipbuilder. It also made marine diesel engines, the last of which it built in 1980.
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The engine room was severely damaged. Greaser Maurice Holden escaped from the engine room, but then realised that the engineer was trapped, went back in and rescued him. For his bravery, Holden was awarded a British Empire Medal. [7] Empire Commerce was declared a constructive total loss and was scrapped in situ.
MV British Prudence was a tanker built by Sir James Laing & Sons Ltd. of Sunderland in 1939 and operated by the British Tanker Company. A U-boat sank her in 1942 off the coast of Newfoundland. She was a victim of the Second Happy Time: the Kriegsmarine ' s Operation Drumbeat to sink Allied merchant shipping in the Western Atlantic