| Description | Steam Boat Engines (13 items).
1245. Sunderland Harbour Dredging Engine. Jan.-Apr. 1797. 13 items.
4 horse power crank engine, with 12? inch cylinder, 3 foot stroke, parallel motion.
Side view of the engine and longitudinal section of the boiler - reverse drawing; plan of the engine and boiler, front view of the engine - coloured original and reverse drawings; edge view of the fly wheel etc., nozzles and perpendicular pipes - reverse drawings; framing and cistern - direct copy; "method of applying the power of the engine to turn the rope barrels" - reverse drawing; general view and plan of the engine and boiler (this drawing was copied for Messrs. Grimshaw in Jul. 1805), cross-section of the boiler and front view of the engine and view of the fly wheel and outer end of the beam, parallel motion - reverse drawings; sketch plan and side view of the engine showing the rope barrels. All the drawings except the last item bear letter codes.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 269.
For Sunderland Harbour. The engine was ordered by Jonathan Pickernell, an engineer from Sunderland, for the Commissioners "appointed by an Act of Parliament passed in the Twenty fifth year of his present Majesty entitled 'An Act for the better preservation and improvement of River Wear and Port and Haven of Sunderland in the County Palatine of Durham'." The engine was mounted in a boat and worked dredging apparatus. This engine was omitted from the Catalogue of Old Engines.
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