| Description | Steam Boat Engines (3 items).
1214. Gillespie Gerard & Co., Lake Ontario Steamer (YA). Apr. 1816. 3 items.
50 horse power vertical boat engine, with 38 inch cylinder, 4 foot stroke.
Side view of the engine and one boiler, end view of the engine and one boiler, plan of the engine and boilers and shafts - reverse drawings. All the drawings bear letter codes.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 682. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 310.
For Lake Ontario, Canada. Gillespie Gerard & Co. of America Square, London were the agents. This was an unusual early type of boat engine first used for John Molson's Malsham in 1813-1814 [Portfolio 5/1240b], and used for this boat and the Lake Ontario steamer ordered by William Hodgson & Co. [see Portfolio 5/1213]; the drawings for the two Ontario engines were placed in the same book. The piston drove two cranks and fly wheels by means of a cross-bar and long side rods. It was also connected to an air pump beam.
See also: 4/95 (Engine Order Book No. 9). |