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The fire room of the battleship USS Massachusetts. On a ship, the fire room, or FR or boiler room or stokehold, referred to the space, or spaces, of a vessel where water was brought to a boil. The steam was then transmitted to a separate engine room, often (but not always) located immediately aft, where it was utilized to power the vessel.
In 2010, three crew members on destroyer INS Mumbai were killed when an AK-630 Close-in weapon system went off as safety drills were not followed. [1]January 2011: INS Vindhyagiri, a Nilgiri-class frigate, capsized after a collision with the Cyprus-flagged merchant vessel MV Nordlake near Sunk Rock Lighthouse, following which a major fire broke out in the ship's engine and boiler room.
On 30 October, as she raised steam to get underway and rejoin the fleet, the valve began to leak once more. The bonnet blew off the valve, flooding the boiler room with steam from two boilers. Ten of the eleven crewmen in the room were killed during or immediately after the incident, with the last surviving until 23:30 that evening.
Stokers in the boiler room on board HMT Stella Pegasi, Scapa Flow, 6 June 1943. The Royal Navy used the rank structure stoker 2nd class, stoker 1st Class, leading stoker, stoker petty officer and chief stoker. The non-substantive (trade) badge for stokers was a ship's propeller. "Stoker" remains the colloquial term for a marine engineering ...
Etching of damage from a boiler explosion in Newark, New Jersey in 1867 This is a list of steam boiler explosions such as railway locomotive , marine transport (military and civilian), and stationary power:
The ship visited Liverpool from 1 July to 7 July 1971. In September 1971 Bulwark took part in exercises in the eastern Mediterranean with 845 Squadron embarked. Whilst at anchor off Trieste she suffered a boiler room fire, in 'B' boiler room, and limped home on one set of boilers.
This caused the entire duty section to work until about 04:30 to pump out water from the after magazine and berthing compartments. On Hanson ' s shakedown cruise out of dry dock, a fire broke out in a boiler room, causing the ship to go to general quarters to fight the fire. This happened about eight hours into the shakedown cruise while ...
All boiler room vents were opened to clear the boiler room of steam to aid searching for the leaks. At about 3:00 pm, the submarine went to diving stations, and after confirming that the engine room had been shut off, the submarine was dived.