| Description | Steam Boat Engines (7 items).
1216. Lonergan & Co., Seville Steamer (WV & WW). Jun., Sep. 1823, Aug. 1827. 7 items.
Two 20 horse power side lever boat engines, with 26¾ inch cylinders, 2½ foot strokes.
Midship section of the boat, plan of the engines and boiler, side view of the engine room (3 drawings on 1 sheet); paddle wheel and shaft - shaded original and shaded reverse drawings; feed and emptying pipes for boiler - reverse drawing; rough sketch of paddle wheel and shaft sent to the Foundry.
Also the following later items: section and plan of boiler - original and reverse drawings, Aug. 1827 (the reverse drawing was also used for the Kiel). All the drawings except the first item and the rough paddle sketch bear letter codes.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 765. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 314.
For a Spanish customer. The boat worked out of Seville. Lonergan & Co. of 3 Austin Friars, London were the agents. The Kiel was almost certainly the boat built by Thomas Brocklebank formerly known as Eagle [see Portfolio 5/1263]. |