engines

I've seen pistons fitted on top of the valves on the LP cylinders. They're on the Brittanic's piston valves, but also shown on a photo of Titanic's slide valves. I guess they're for balancing but can't see why, especially for slide valves. Anyone have any ideas???

Hello everyone...this might seem a daft question, but I was curious about what colour the engine castings were likely to have been painted? You see similar surviving steam engines and they are often painted colours like gloss dark or light green, with a lot of red parts- hopefully you know the...

Hi All, This is my latest project...I'm working on the Titanic main Engines - these images show the latest progress...

Hello! Does anyone here have any details on the engine tachometers? i have heard that they were mechanical tachometers driven by a Silent chain, so i'm guessing a similar chain to those found in transfer cases? This is a bit of a grey area when it comes to my titanic knowledge, i simply do not...

I have looked through the profiles and deck plan and do not see the thrust block for the turbine's center shaft. I see the main engine thrust blocks plainly marked. The turbine must have a thrust block especially being a very sensitive piece of hardware. Usually the thrust block isn't built into...

Hi Does anyone know the date of the Olympic's 12 hour 'bedding in' sea trials following the repairs made around her engines? I have the date recorded as 22nd Feb 1933 but I now can't find my source material to confirm this date. I think it came from a newspaper article. Any help would be...

Hi, does anyone know how many Steam Engines Titanic had on board in total and could anyone list them? We all know about the 2 Four Cylinder main Steam Engines but there were Engines for the Rudder, Electric Generators, Pumps and many other things. Regards Andy

Hello, since the start of urgency after spotting the iceberg was very high, the engine room staff were called to put the engine in reverse, could the reverse procedure of been carried out so fast that damage occurred to the engines? For instance, before reversing, the valves for the Turbine...

Greetings to all fellow enthusiasts of the RMS Titanic. I am a newcomer from the Philippines intrigued by the particulars surrounding this magnificent ship, specifically the numbers behind it. Specifications, blueprints, mechanisms, all the minutiae, these fascinate me (among other reasons...

For any of you engineers. I know on modern ships they never change the oil they just keep it clean with lube oil centrifuges and filters. With some ships having 30,000 gals or more of lube oil that makes perfect economic sense. How did they do it back in Titanic's time and how much oil was in...

Quite a number of survivors stated the engines stopped suddenly. Others felt a long vibration and thought they were going full astern. Was it possible that the engines did stop suddenly by pulling a lever (as shown in Cameron's Titanic) and would this create an enormous cavitation which...

Here is a fascinating look at the Titanic sinking using the Unreal Engine 4 process, with sound effects and multiple camera angles. Must have been a truly horrific experience to be on the great liner as she went down. .

I have read a number of survivor accounts which said the engines had fallen out of the ship. I recall one survivor who mentioned specifically that the strong list to port caused the machinery to crash through the hull on the port side and tore the ship apart. Is this possible? The forward...

Hi everyone, I been looking in for a while but have decided to post now, I've been interested in the technical side of Titanic since 1983 My questions are regarding the engine and spare engine for the Rudder; 1 How many crew where in that station and did they sleep in there? 2. Where did the...

Does anyone know, or does anyone know where I can find out, how long it took to heat up the water (starting with cold water, and with empty furnaces) in Titanic's boilers and get a head of steam that could run the engines? I'm not talking about full steam pressure, but you know, kind of...

A low pressure engine cylinder can be found on the seabed beside the broken middle section in the debris field. Has this engine cylinder been carefully analysed to detect if there are any unusual markings or indentations other than landing on the seabed? I'm not an engineer, but can anyone...

Greetings everyone, This is my 1/350 Titanic steam engine scratch build, which is coming along briskly, as you can see it’s just a little less than 2” long. I’ve always been fascinated with large marine reciprocating steam engines and it really doesn’t get much better than those used on the...

I understand the forward engines fell out of the ship when she broke in two. Do we know where the engines are on the sea floor? It appears they ripped out the keel underneath them. Were they bolted to the keel or simply held in place by their weight? Is it possible that water rushed into...

For the last 20 minutes of the tragic disaster, and about the Morse code messages sent to nearby ships on April 15th 1912. The last few messages sent to the nearby ships were as follows: "CQD, SOS. MGY (titanic) to all stations. Engine room flooded up to the boilers" And: "CQD, SOS. MGY to all...

Curious to know if the Titanic suffered the same defects as the Olympic twenty years later when serious fractures were discovered inside the Olympic's engine room. At first they thought it was minor and the Olympic would only miss one voyage, but then they discovered it was very serious and...