propulsion

Hello all - long time lurker, finally got off the sidelines. This might be a bit of a silly question but... I have read and seen that the damage caused by the collision was examined by sonar through the mud with enough detail to show the lack of the massive gash, but has anyone done anything...

Hello everyone :) I have a question regarding the propeller system on the Titanic. I have been interested in Titanic for many years but I am not a sailor or a ship captain by any means. Now to my question. I am aware Titanic had 3 propellers, two main engines on the port and starboard side and...

I have just been looking at a TV programme about the loss of the General Slocum, and I am curious about the propulsion arrangements of this side-paddle vessel. In particular, what was the purpose of the curious metal structure that projected through the upper deck near the twin funnels - was...

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

https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/an-olympic-class-propulsion-system.html

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...

H&W did not have its own towing tank. (Aside from the Admiralty tank at Haslar, Deny's had the only one in the UK at the time.) Does anyone know whether model tests were conducted to estimate residuary resistance for the Olympic class? If not, how was resistance determined?

Richard de Kerbrech, already a very familiar name to many Titanic buffs, has a new book out, Down Amongst the Black Gang: The World and Workplace of RMS Titanic's Stokers, published by History Press. Very much up to his usual standard.

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...

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...

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...

did the belgenland have similar propulsive machinery to the olympic class?

Hi, has there been any ships built with unusual machinery, for example turbo hydraulic propulsion, vacuum ash collection/ discharge ( there were vacuum ash collection systems for land based power plants as far back as 1910), geared reciprocating engines, 3 or 4 screw ships that used only...

Well, there is not many about Titanics propusion plant in the web, and their are very little books, which represent technical background informations. So an 'steam engineers handbook' seems to be what sometimes is needed. So, speculative, I would like just to tell how such a propulsion power...

Thanks for posting that research, Mark. I didn't know much about the engines --except that they are huge.