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  2. Engine room - Wikipedia

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    Main engine deck of a cargo vessel Location of a ship's engine room on a bulk carrier Engine room of the Mercy Ship Caribbean Mercy in 1997. Her propulsion diesel is an MAK. EMD diesels in the engine room of the Research Vessel Davidson circa 2002. On a ship, the engine room (ER) [1] is the compartment where the machinery for marine propulsion ...

  3. Wiper (occupation) - Wikipedia

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    A wiper is a position responsible for both cleaning the engine spaces and machinery of a ship and assisting the ship's engineers as directed. Railroad workers who performed similar jobs were also known as wipers, [1] or in the UK as "cleaners". The most junior rate in a ship's engine room, the wiper position is an apprenticeship to become an ...

  4. Oiler (occupation) - Wikipedia

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    Oilers working for the Canadian Coast Guard have various duties, some of which include, performing regular maintenance of the ship's engines and other equipment, assisting the engineers with the repair and overhaul of the ship’s engines and equipment, making regular rounds of the engine room and designated spaces and alerting the engineer on ...

  5. Motorman (ship) - Wikipedia

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    A motorman, also known as a qualified member of the engineering department (QMED), is the seniormost rate in the engine room of a ship. The motorman performs a variety of tasks connected with the maintenance and repair of engine room, fireroom, machine shop, ice-machine room, and steering-engine room equipment. The motorman inspects equipment ...

  6. Black gang (ship) - Wikipedia

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    The black gang are the members of a ship's crew who work in the fire room/engine room; [1] they are also called stokers or firemen. [2] They are called "black" because of the soot and coal dust that is thick in the air in the fire room/engine room. The term began being used in the days of coal-fired steamships.

  7. File:HMS Dreadnought 1906 engine room.svg - Wikipedia

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    English: General arrangement of port engine room 1 — outlet shaft; 2 — exhaust trunk from high pressure (HP) for low pressure (LP) astern turbine; 3 - HP astern turbine; 4 — dummy piston; 5 — rotor shaft bearings; 6 — LP ahead turbine; 7 — inner shaft; 8 — main steam to HP ahead turbine; 9 — thrust block; 10 — main steam to HP ...

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  9. Crew of the Titanic - Wikipedia

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    It is named the Memorial to the Engine Room Heroes of the Titanic. A memorial to the Titanic Engineers in Southampton, from where many of the crew members came. The Chief Engineer, Joseph Bell (who was born in Farlam), has a headstone at Farlam, near Brampton, Cumbria, in the graveyard of St Thomas a Becket Church. [19]