| Description | 91. Various Steam Boats. 1815, 1825-1827, 1834, 1840, 1842, 1845-1850, 1852-1861, 1863, 1864, 1868, 1869, 1873, 1875, 1881, 1884. 78 items.
Sections of boats, engine components, specifications etc.
Sections of boats and engines:
Navy Steamer Congo (20 horse independent beam engine):
Cross-section and plan of the boat, engine and boilers, side view of engine and outside view of paddle wheel - 2 coloured drawings, Aug. 1815.
"Steam Boat Sections" (13 small cross-sections of boats with Boulton Watt & Co. engines) - original and reverse drawings, Feb. 1825.
Side view of side lever engine - press copy drawing, Nov. 1826.
Sketch plan of engine room for 2 150 horse side lever engines - coloured drawing marked "No. 2", Oct. 1848.
North German Lloyds Co. (2 35 horse engines):
Cross-section of the boat at the boiler - coloured drawing, Jun. 1857.
Thomas Vernon & Son (2 36 horse engines for a collier?):
Longitudinal section of the engine room and boiler - partially coloured drawing, Aug. 1860.
"Engine and Boiler Arrangement for Nos. 39 & 40 vessels" - tracing, Dec. 1864.
Cylinders:
London Chatham & Dover Railway (Scud):
56 inch trunk cylinder - coloured reverse drawing, Jan. 1861.
Condensers:
Section of condenser etc. for 2 40 horse oscillating engines - partially coloured reverse drawing, Jan. 1853.
Boilers and feed pipes:
Letter from E. Jones dated 16 Sep. 1834 with rough sketch of a boiler.
Austrian Navy (frigate Sta Lucia, 2 150 horse engines):
Feed pipes - coloured reverse drawing, May 1849.
Rinaldo:
Rough pencil sections of boiler for 200 horse engine, Feb. 1859.
Undine (Duke of Sutherland's Yacht):
Cross-section showing new boilers - coloured drawing, Dec. 1864.
Nemesis (Bengal Marine):
Plans and sections of twin boiler - partially coloured drawing, Mar. 1869.
Koel and Koladyne (Bengal Marine):
Plans and sections of new boilers (two for each vessel) - partially coloured drawing, Mar. 1869.
Rough pencil sections of a boiler for 2 40 horse engines, not dated.
Screw propellers and hoisting gear:
Apurimac (boat for Peru, 2 150 horse engines):
Screw propeller and hoisting gear, front view of the hoisting gear, screw and shafting - 3 coloured reverse drawings, Dec. 1853, Jan. 1854.
Adelaide (450 horse engines):
Stern shaft, screw propeller etc. - coloured reverse drawing, Nov. 1854.
Paul van Vlissingen & Dudok van Heel:
Screw propeller, Mar. 1857; screw propeller (drawing and 2 tracings stuck together), Sep. 1858.
Amazonas screw frigate:
Stern tube - coloured reverse drawing, Oct. 1857.
Portugese Government (corvette Stephanie, 2 200 horse horizontal engines):
Screw propeller and hoisting apparatus - coloured reverse drawing, Mar. 1858.
H. M. S. Prince Regent (2 250 horse engines):
Screw as made, Griffiths' Patent - coloured drawing, not dated [circa 1860?].
Feed and bilge pumps, brine pumps:
Feeding pumps, pipes and valves for 2 30 horse oscillating engines - partially coloured reverse drawing, Aug. 1845.
Austrian Navy (frigate Sta. Lucia, 2 150 horse engines):
Brine pumps, Jun. 1849 and valve box for the feed and bilge pumps, Apr. 1850 - 2 partially coloured reverse drawings.
Feed and bilge pumps for "Nile, P.O. boat and sundries, 30 horse engines" - partially coloured reverse drawing, Dec. 1852.
Feeding and bilge pumps for 2 150 horse oscillating engines - coloured reverse drawing, Jun. 1855.
Prince Patrick (North Lancashire Steam Navigation Co., 2 150 horse engines):
Feed and bilge pumps - coloured reverse drawing, Oct. 1855.
London & Paris Steam Boat Co. (2 40 horse engines):
Feed and bilge pumps - partially coloured reverse drawing, Dec. 1856.
Holyhead Steamers:
Feed and bilge pumps - coloured drawing, Sep. 1859.
Cole Savill & Co. (2 10 horse high pressure engines):
Feed and bilge pumps - partially coloured drawing, Jun. 1875.
Working gear:
Cadiz steam boat (Hercules, 2 20 horse oscillating engines):
Plan of the working gear, Sep. 1844.
Antelope (Sicilian Custons, 2 20 horse oscillating engines):
Sketch for alteration of working gear - partially coloured drawing, Sep. 1844.
Working gear etc. for 2 30 horse oscillating engines - partially coloured reverse drawing, Jul. 1845.
Sack Bremer & Co. (Thames & Elbe, 2 pairs of 2 20 horse oscillating engines):
Working gear - partially coloured reverse drawing, Mar. 1848.
Plan and side view of the working gear for 2 150 horse oscillating engines - 2 coloured reverse drawings, Jun. 1855.
Prince Patrick (North Lancashire Steam Navigation Co., 2 150 horse engines):
Working gear - coloured reverse drawing, 1855.
Arracan (Bengal Tug, 2 130 horse oscillating engines):
Working gear - coloured reverse drawing, May 1868.
Eccentrics, starting gear and disengaging gear:
Imperial Danube Steam Navigation Co. (Archduke Lewis & Franz Hermione):
Eccentric circle, rod and disengaging gear for the 1st and 3rd pairs of 20 horse oscillating engines - coloured original and coloured reverse drawings, Dec. 1840.
Eccentric and working gear (coloured drawing), and plan of the eccentric guides for 20 horse oscillating engine, Jul. 1842.
Eccentric and starting gear etc. for 2 30 horse oscillating engines - partially coloured reverse drawing, Jul. 1845.
Eccentric and starting gear etc. for 2 40 horse oscillating engines - partially coloured reverse drawing, May 1847.
Sack Bremer & Co. (Thames & Elbe, 2 sets of 2 20 horse oscillating engines):
Eccentric and starting gear - partially coloured reverse drawing, Mar. 1848.
Grantham & Vernon (Haggerstone & Hunswick?):
General sketch of eccentrics for colliers - partially coloured reverse drawing, Mar. 1852.
Eccentric and starting gear for "Sundries, Nile, P.O. boat, 30 horse engines" - partially coloured reverse drawing, Nov. 1852.
Eccentrics etc. for 2 150 horse oscillating engines - coloured reverse drawing, Jun. 1855.
London & Paris Steam Boat Co. (2 40 horse engines):
Starting gear bracket, wheel and cross bar - reverse drawing, Dec. 1856.
Munster (City of Dublin Steam Packet Co., 2 375 horse oscillating engines):
Starting gear bracket to replace broken one, not dated.
Expansion and throttle valve gear:
Expansion and throttle valve gear for 2 30 horse oscillating engines - partially coloured reverse drawing, Jul. 1846.
Sack Bremer & Co. (Thames & Elbe, 2 sets of 2 20 horse oscillating engines):
Throttle valve gearing - partially coloured reverse drawing, Mar. 1849.
Arracan (Bengal Tug, 2 130 horse oscillating engines):
Expansion gear - coloured reverse drawing, May 1868.
Chiltern (Eastern Telegraph Co., 200 horse compound engine):
Expansion gear bracket - coloured drawing, Aug. 1873.
Slide valves and gear:
Slide valve links etc. for 2 40 horse oscillating engines - partially coloured reverse drawing, May 1847.
Prince Patrick (North Lancashire Steam Navigation Co., 2 150 horse engines):
Slide gear etc. - coloured reverse drawing, Jun. 1855.
Headstocks:
Post Office Packet Thetis (2 70 horse side lever engines):
Side view of proposed headstocks and working gear, Feb. 1827.
Pump rods, connecting rods:
Post Packet Avon (formerly Thetis):
Tops of side and connecting rods, air pump side rods etc. - coloured drawing, not dated.
Walker & Co., tug boat :
Air and circulating pump rods - partially coloured tracing, Apr. 1881 (also used for engine KC, Jun. 1881 and Holland & Co., Jan. 1883).
Brasses, blocks etc.:
H. M. S. Columbia (2 50 horse side lever engines):
Various brasses, glands etc. - partially coloured drawing, Jan. 1840 (copied from original of Sep. 1839).
Navy Steamer Flamer (2 60 horse engines):
Brasses for side rods and crank pins - coloured drawing, Jan. 1840.
"Ex Alban":
Various brasses etc. - coloured drawing, Sep. ?.
H. M. S. Prince Regent (2 250 horse engines):
Block for propeller shafting - tracing, not dated [circa 1860?].
Specifications, tenders, memoranda etc.:
Printed form of tender and printed list of spare tools and articles for 150 horse engines (2 75 horse engines) for the Admiralty, Nov. 1855.
Letter from George Scholes dated Birkenhead, Mar. 1863, re Orontes, bilge pump for Munster, line of shafting for Deerhound.
Printed specifications of boilers for the Bengal Government vessels Nemesis, Sir William Peel, Koel and Koladyne, Feb. 1869 (4 sheets).
Description of the performance of the Medusa - press copy, not dated (4 sheets).
S. S. Britannia:
Specification of engines for S. S. Britannia, Buenos Ayres, Argentina, Apr. 1884 (2 sheets).
Transcript of letter from W. H. Bisset, Senior Surveyor, Board of Trade dated 29 Apr. 1884 re boiler for S. S. Britannia.
Memorandum of extracts from W. H. Scholes' letter dated 7 Jun. 1884 re S. S. Britannia.
Note re surface of boiler for 80 horse engine, not dated.
Note and rough sketch re boiler for S.S. Atalanta, not dated. |