| Description | Steam Boat Engines (4 items).
1263. Steam Barge Eagle (YV & XA). Nov. 1820. 4 items.
Two 20 horse power side lever boat engines, with 26¾ inch cylinders, 2½ foot strokes.
Cross-section of the boat and engines and plan of the engine room - reverse drawing made in the London office; side view of engine and section of the boiler and plan of the engines and boiler - coloured original and coloured reverse drawings; sketch of headstock frames with note by William Creighton attached. The first and last items bear letter codes.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 727. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 310.
For Thomas Brocklebank of London. The boat was built by Brocklebank, and later sold to the Danish Admiralty and re-named Kiel. In 1827 Boulton Watt & Co. supplied a new boiler for the Kiel [see Portfolio 5/1216]. Note that Boulton Watt & Co. had previously built a 20 horse beam engine for a Tyne packet also named Eagle [see Portfolio 5/1248].
See also: 4/95 (Engine Order Book No. 9). |