| Description | Steam Boat Engines (6 items).
1227. Navy Steamer Tartarus (OA & OB). Jun., Jul., Oct. 1833. 6 items.
Two 50 horse power side lever boat engines, with 39½ inch cylinders, 3½ foot strokes.
Cross-section of the boat and engines, section at after bulkhead, plan of the deck beams and longitudinal section of the engine room, plan of the sleepers etc. - reverse drawings made in the London office; coal boxes - reverse drawing; sections and plan of boiler - partially coloured reverse drawing made in the London office (this drawing was also used for boilers for Carron, Trinity House 50 horse engines for Argus, Cuckoo). Only the last 2 items bear letter codes.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 870. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 318.
For H. M. Navy. According to the Catalogue of Old Engines, Tartarus was a survey ship. She was initially referred to as "Navy No. 8", and her drawings were kept in the same book as those for Columbia [see Portfolio 5/1226] and the two boats used some of the same drawings. She was broken up in 1860. |