engines

Immediately after the collision 4th officer Boxhall said he overheard Murdoch telling the Captain "I'm going full speed astern sir on the port engine." Curious to know if this was normal practice during an emergency and why Boxhall said that? According to QM Olliver the helm order was "Hard...

There have been earlier posts about the time required to reverse a reciprocating marine steam engine. It seems like a couple of minutes, depending upon various factors, but several more minutes to bring the ship to a dead stop. What do we know about the time between when the bridge watch...

Hi, My apologies if this question has been raised elsewhere on this forum. For a Masters of Engineering project, I'm researching the strategies used for starting and stopping the Titanic. I've already found plenty of information about the start-up process, but haven't found much at all on...

Looking at the Encyclopedia Titanica blueprints, it seems like the boilers are on the Orlop Deck and the Engine and Turbine room is on the Tank Top Deck. However, I was told the boiler rooms and the engine and turbine room are all on the Tank Top Deck. Who is right, or am I just reading the...

What is meant by engine room casing in the blueprints. It goes all the way from the boat deck down to the engine room.

There are other members of the Engine area that are not mentioned above. These are: - 2 Fireman Messmen - 4 Mess Stewards - 1 Chief Electrician - 4 Electricians - 1 Assistant Electrician - 2 Storekeepers - 2 Assistant Storekeepers - 2 Deck Engineers - 1 Plumber Can someone identify...

i want to make a 3 D model for the engine and need some good drawings showing the crankcase including how the stephenson linkage are installed on the engine ? did not relly find good dwg for this and need some with more informations! anyone has some good 2D or even 3D images showing this so...

Something that I have been wondering about for a long time. Following the collision, the engines were put into reverse. Didn't this have had a detrimental affect on the efficiency of the rudder? Wouldn't a better tactic have been putting the port engine in reverse and the starboard...

The number of hours which Titanic's engines were running at full speed from Noon on April 14 to the moment she hit that iceberg and finally came to a halt is crucial to the understanding of Titanic's naviagtion errors i.e. why her wreck was found 12.5 miles short of her distress position. So...

Hi all! First post, so bear with me. I'm doing a research project (one of many) and I am aware that there really isn't much that is known for a fact about the final moments of the Engineering crew, on the basis that not a single engineer survived. I want to know if anyone had speculations...

Greetings all, I am a long time avid amateur Titanic historian. Well, not really, I do gobble up books on the subject but retain much less than I would like. In any regard, I was having a conversation with a friend, and fellow Titanic buff the other night about the centennial, which quickly...

I know she was fitted with boilers and engines after she was launched, and I know the decks were built before the launch. So how on earth did they manage to fit these giant engines and boilers in her after the decks were already built? And how would they remove them if a boiler became damaged...

HI, so i was wondering in james cameron's titanic you see chief engineer bell turning some wheel in the full ahead full scene of the movie. is this supposed to be the wheel that operated the main stop valve on the side of the reciprocating engine? also in the movie isn't the wheel in the wrong...

Hi, I'm working on detailed 3D model of Britannic steering engine in sketchup. I've already seen its detailed plan and photos, but there are part that I never found any photos. Below is the attachment of the image i'm referring to: (I didn't attach the actual plan due to regulations of...

Various random views throughout Queen Mary's last remaining engineering spaces, from the Starting Platform through Shaft Alley (no jokes please...)to the rudder turning gear and emergency steering station http://travel.webshots.com/album/570375534ZSMqTt

Hello I apologize if this has been covered, I've done my best to familiarize myself with some of the various posts and articles on the site but don't recall seeing this exact information posted. Reading on Titanic's engines (and reciprocating engines in general) I've learned that the...

Hi, I'm modeling one of the Titanic engines in Autodesk Inventor, because maybe I'll have the opportunity to have it build. I've modeled another steam engine before, but there where detailed plans for it. You can take a look at it here...

First off, I'd like to say hello to all on this board since I just joined here. I find this site to be very informative. After reading Samuel Halpern's article "Titanic Prime Mover", I thought I would like to take the analysis of the triple expansion engines further and contribute to my and...

Hello, I am modeling one of the reciprocating engines of Titanic in Autodesk Inventor, a school project for mechanics. So far I have made the base and supporting frame, and the crankshaft. Now I have come to the cylinders, but I'm facing a problem. The IP and LP cylinders seem to have 2...

I know that aft of the turbine engine room, the Titanic had two smaller steam engines, driving the generators. Those engines were of course smaller than the main engines, but how big were they? The Titanic, being a large ship, I believe they were big enough to power a smaller vessel. How big a...