Steamship Engine Room and Boiler Room Expertise Needed– SS Camlough’s Last Trip (January 1932)
I’m continuing to tease out answers to some unanswered questions from all the available contemporary evidence.
Apologies for the length of this post – but I would be grateful if people who have...
I am writing a historical novel, which concerns a fictional hospital/troop-ship in the Adriatic at the beginning of 1916. For my narrative to work, my fictitional coal-fired ship needs to develop a fault which will partially disable it but still allow it to make headway, even if at reduced...
4 Paxman engines, two screws and instant response. Fortunately.
Voice from the top bridge to the wheelhouse, repeated by the helmsman, and acted on by the seaman at the telegraph, and reacted to with remarkable speed by the engineer below.
Chief Engineer - in the engine control room, while working in the Bombay High oil field about 60 miles due west of Mumbai - got the hang of this job at last......