A steam ship I worked on, the William C Daldy steam tug in Auckland, New Zealand, had written down on a small blackboard what revs the engine was to do for whatever command was sent to the telegraph. This gave you a good idea what to do.
@@asbestosfibers1325 you can watch and hear it step by step with these big steam engines. "HRUFFFFFFFFFF HRUFFFFFFFF HRUFFFFFFFFFF HRUFFFFFFFFFFF" gas engines dont sound like that.
ThePaulv12 I'm guessing but I imagine that this was because in 1955 the UK was still very much a coal producing and consuming nation, with no indigenous oil yet discovered. Coal was abundant and cheap, and not at the mercy of foreign governments like oil.
Steam engines were allways responsive once up to operating temp. Especially when your talking about triple expansion engines. Super efficient, powerful at low rpm with high torque. Steam engines for example took a LOT of skill to be able to power off from a start, they would often axle tramp with a little bit of moisture. The same steam engine principal types are still used today just gas driven boilers.
The builders usually built them with enclosed cranks, but since she was intended for 'passenger trade', the engines were left open so that passengers to go down and watch them at work!
It's hard to imagine that this is probably what Titanic was like on her maiden voyage. Just a crew working together keeping the ship running day and night and then dying together to keep the power going until the last.
@@FlatBroke612 Don't worry. We understand that you do not have the ability to discuss history maturely. Keep up the 'good work' of resorting to sex jokes for cheap laughs.
As advanced as technology nowadays is, these steam engines that run smoothly would still bring a big smile to my face. There's always a unique beauty behind these engines no matter what. This is brilliant art at work.
DAVID TAYLOR very large reciprocating steam engines will run forever with proper maintenance. We had Victorian era pumping engines basically running day in day out well into the 1970's, and many would still be working had the economics of operating them not adjusted to favour electric pumps.
@@spencerwilton5831 You are doing a great job preserving these engines. Steam engines were the greatest invention changing the world for the better. I was a marine engineer many years back but only worked on diesel engines.
I was on this boat almost ten years ago, it's great to know it's still in service. I have just reserved a place on her for the Bournemouth air show, can't wait.
I was a third assistant on a 2,500 H.P. triple expansion. Used to love making rounds checking the bearings. Got your knuckles rapped a few times but you'd get the rhythm. Had to get inside the engine to check the crossheads, quite a feeling.
I used to go down into the engine room of the USS Jeremiah O'Brian at Fort Mason in San Francisco when they did the monthly firing of its triple expansion steam engine. It still amazes me that they cranked those Liberty Ships out every three days in WW II.
This is an amazing functioning example of marine engines that were state of the art before steam turbines began replacing them. It does however appear a small army of engineers and sailors are required to operate and maintain it.
I have operated such an engine in the 60's on the Great Lakes J. Clare Miller and etc. But our engine were very much bigger. The stroke was over a deck level long as our engine was over three deck high. You could walk thru the engine to oil it and had to touch the cross heads in motion to feel for hot spots needing oil. We operated at 90 rpm a minute and as high as 115 on very rare occassions.
Lot of engine movements early on. You could do it on a steamship but motor ship compressors couldn't keep up with the starting air demand. I was on a Blue Flue ship when the old Scottish Chief phoned the bridge and told them "You've got one choice left, 1 start or 2 toots on the whistle, make up your mind".
I just stumbled across this - I spent a week onboard the Shieldhall as part of my Engineer Cadetship at Warsash School of Nav in 1987 (I think). Shieldhall used to transport the pooh out beyond the Isle of Wight (in less enlightened days) where she would surreptitiously dump it in the sea while the crew waved to the swimmers... . I remember helping refit the 'bottom end' bearings. We clubbed together to bet that one of our number, Ken (from Kirkintilloch in Scotland) would not jump off the bow into the murky waters of Southampton docks - he took the £25 and jumped straight in in his boilersuit. Great memory, great ship. Thank you.
I always feel like it’s roughly the same thing with Steam Ships and Steam Locomotives! Even if one’s a bit more complicated than the other, it still comes down to Coal, Boilers, Heat and Steam. 🤗
Each reciprocating engine generated 15,000 shaft horsepower, the low pressure turbine another 16,000. All ran surprisingly slowly compared to modern diesels I have seen in operation aboard ships I build, which are far smaller and lighter but generate 20,000 shp each.
Very cool....to think that was all designed without computers. Literally on the ol' drawing board with rulers and pencils. Then machined without any CNC's, just pure craftsmanship. Nothing against computers, it's just amazing what mankind did without them.
Served in a minesweeper with very similar triple expansion engines with a bit more hp. What you can't see in the video is the oil that is mixed with the steam that leaks from all sorts of places so that there is warm mist mixture of steam and oil in the engine room which coats everything and everyone - constant cleaning of handrails and decks was important because if they became slippery then people could tip over when the ship rolled and end up with body parts in moving machinery. Tiller flat, where a steam engine powered the steering gear, was a particularly grotty place because it was unmanned and therefore got cleaned less often - in that place various items were stored, fenders etc, that were used by seamen and these items were typically coated in oil which ended up on hands and uniforms - engineers didn't give a big rats arse about seamen getting oil all over them and just concerned themselves with cleaning the engine room where they worked.
Just imagine if they saved the Olympic as a museum one could tour and see her engines running. Every single room restored to just as she was the day she she passed her seaworthy trials. From the stately reading room to the ships main galley to the sumptuous fittings of hand carved wood. There’ll not be another I’ll fancy. Why, just her massive steam condenser, was larger than many a ships engines. Harland & Wolff , Belfast Northern Ireland. From stem to stern her and her two sisters were marvelous examples of the shipbuilders craft. The RMS Olympic The RMS Titanic The HMHS Britannic “Right then,,, we go full ahead!” The last of her twenty nine double ended boilers has just been 🔥 lit. ‘‘Twas the Chief Engineer’s pride to ensure that the last ounce of power was gleaned of all that steam. Good morning Mabel, Myrtle, and Constance. How are we feeling today? Lets show the Captain what we can do. 54,000 tons at twenty five knots, well done!
It would be fantastic to have saved the Olympic, it would be a hell of a tourist attraction here lol. They have the SS Nomadic restored and in dry dock beside the Titanic centre in Belfast though.
Well if the Olympic had been saved her triple expansion engines would have been the largest of their kind surpassing the Kempton engines. And...25 knots was actually beyond the Olympic class maximum speed tho. They sailed at around 24 kts top speed and 21 kts service speed but rumor has it the Olympic exerted herself up to 25 knots once when she tried to rush to the rescue of her sister Titanic
As a kid in the 80's, being from the Detroit area originally, I rode the Boblo boats a few times, and I remember as a kid being absolutely fascinated by watching the engine room from atop the deck looking down. There's even a video on here about it.
I worked as cabinetmaker, got hypertension from the deafening whine of all the high machine tools spinning at 70,000 rpm Finally got smart and landed a job as a deckhand on tugs towing fuel oil where I would fall asleep to the purr of Detroit Deisels beneath my bunk and the sound the prop turn 700 rpm, a low thrum throughout the boat. Like living in a giant cat it was
Tommy Petraglia you must be a old deckhand. Detroit’s out here are a thing of the past. Everything going green, but those Detroit’s wouldn’t die. Could blow a head and have water in the cylinder and still get it turned over and running.
@@bradgt5130 We carried two spare heads and 2 power packs and made repairs underway. I decked on boats in the 90's some laid down as early as 1970, with the Barney Turecamo fresh from the shipyard in 1995 powred with twin 3000 EMDs. Oh how I loved that rattle and hum to lull me to sleep when I hit the rack
Pretty cool to think that old sailing warships had engines like these, just imagine sailing with the wind in your brand new 500 gun ship then you just see an enemy warship chugging towards your location with all it's sails stowed away. Must have been a surprise to sailors to encounter steamships for the first time.
Is for those extremely gorgeous steam engine that i gone in a nautical school to became naval engineer cadet.The loud noise and the up and down of those machines are like a heart,to me.But not only:a propeller shaft is like the time that goes....i feel life in those engine,and their revolutions are to me as a tranquillizing.Today i love big diesel engine,too.But you cannot see parts like steam engines...but today they are our proud!! Tanks for this beautiful video.Cheers from Mediterranean Sea,Italy.
She actually has 17 operational steam engines. Aside from her 2 main triple expansion engines, all her capstans, steering engine, fuel pumps, boiler air blowers, boiler return feed pumps, bilge pumps, fire pumps and DC generator are steam powered. She carries a diesel generator for AC power and an emergency diesel fire pump. She's very well looked after by a crew of volunteers.
I’m not entirely sure why there are so many comments about the titanic as pretty much all ships built in the early-mid 20th century had steam engines. But it’s a wonderful piece of machinery
For those of us on this side of the pond there are two WWII vintage Liberty ships with engines like this and you can go for a sail on them One is the SS Brown out of Baltimore, the other is the SS Jeremiah O'Brien out of San Francisco. The engine room of the O'Brien (with some digital enhancements) was the engine room of the Titanic in the Cameron movie. Walking into the engine room of one of these ships when she is under weigh is a truly amazing experience.
@@yonatan62 A while back I watched an old Royal Navy film about taking a steam ship from cold to ready to sail and I had the same realization, it was just like a giant Coleman stove. (I have one of the classic green stoves from the 70's). I hadn't thought much about what was actually going on when the oil is burned, but what you are saying makes perfect sense, as liquid oil (or gasoline for that matter) doesn't burn.
@Bill Williams I'll bet he had a lot of stories, and it was great you were able to hear them. None of my uncles were in the military, one was a researcher at Oak Ridge, another was a doctor (which somehow kept him out of the service), and the others were farmers, which was a strategic occupation. I even had an ancestor who went to Canada to avoid the war... the Revolutionary War!
The Steamship Shieldhall is Britain's largest working steamship. This video introduces her, from her build and working life in the Clyde to her present active retirement based in Southampton.
@@greghartford9316 You are correct Greg. Just traveled on the Badger a few days ago. Nice calming sound coming from those engines. Saw the coal pile in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. A conveyor system feeds in the coal. Nice consistent 16-18 knots for 4 hours. Wonderful ship. Oh, sadly the last one in North America.
You know, it’s remarkable that they still put triple expansions in a ship in 1955. I would have thought that by then all the steamers would have had steam turbines.
With Corliss valve gear, triple expansion reciprocating engines are quite efficient. Factor in reduction gear cost and the economics may have favored reciprocating over turbine.
speed150mph it's believed this ship was the last one ever fitted with this type of engine. Reportedly the engine's had been sat around, in the ship yard for a while.
The Shieldhall was a bit of a throwback in 1955 but she was designed for short coastal runs in and out of the Clyde Estuary, so turbines would have been expensive and the efficiency/speed benefits would have been minimal - the trip from the Shieldhall sewage works to the point where the 'cargo' was dumped was only about 40 miles each way, made at around 10 knots. The ship had to be twin-screw to provide the manoeuverability needed to dock at the cramped wharf at the sewage works and for navigated the narrow and heavily-trafficed Clyde. So twin turbines, with full reversing capabilities, was an unneccessary cost. The triple expansion engine was old-fashioned but it was cheap, simple, reliable and, in the service Shieldhall was designed for, surprisingly economical. Especially at a time when marine diesels in the 800-1000hp range were still something of an unknown quantity in the UK. But the Shieldhall was also designed to be a bit deliberately 'old-school.' Alongside her primary role as 'sludge boat', she did double duty as a pleasure steamer taking passengers on day trips (the passengers would be served lunch or tea in the saloon - with the doors and windows tightly shut! - while the sludge dumping was in progress!) and there was a long tradition on the Glasgow Corporation ships of passengers being able to visit the engine room and bridge while the the ship was at sea. So the use of the old reciprocating engines was partly a deliberate choice to give the passengers something interesting to look at. In a way the ship was a tourist attraction from the moment she was built. IIRC by 1955 the shipyard that built her already did a line in very modern high-speed steam engines with enclosed crankcases and full-pressure lubrication (so from the outside they looked rather like a diesel) but Glasgow Corporation insisted on an old, low-speed, open-crank design and made them dust off the blueprints for an engine design from the 1920s.
Loved the video , reminding my own experience on similar engine , twin screw , tripple expansion with 4 scotch boilers , a long time ago , Thank you for the video.
You can't convince me that these engines aren't the pinnacle of human engineering. Sometihng this responsive and this beautiful on this scale, not using the computers and electronics that virtually all of today's engines do.
Our training ship Glen Strathallan in London back in 1967 had a triple expansion steam engine, 700 HP from memory. You could definitely hear each individual cylinder’s different beat. Unfortunately it was scuttled only a few years later. With the advances in oils I wouldn’t be surprised if the engines in the video last a lot longer than when they were made.
From what i've heard. the engines on the RMS Olympic at the time of her scrapping were still in good condition. Compared to the engines on the RMS Mauretania
As batidas dos motores a vapor soam como música,muito fascinante ver todo o funcionamento do motor já que os motores a combustão são obrigatoriamente fechados,lembrou me muito a sessão de cinema em 1997 quando assisti Titanic pela primeira vez.✌️🇧🇷
On ships with this engine it feels like she has a heartbeat. And when you pour the coals to her, she fairly leaps, surging ahead with a full head of steam!
Proud to me in the family of marine engineer . Sound of marine engines reminds of deep sea sailing . Keep going on marine engineers keep her moving ❤️. Hey mighty ocean your son is coming to be inside you 🌊🌊🌊
It was the Jeremiah O'Brien that James Cameron used to take a video of it and somehow with the aid of computer computer animation made the two 5 story tall engines for the movie Titanic and the engine in the center on the Titanic was a steam turbine something new in those days and if you look at the mechanics that were lubricating and greasing the engines at the same time as they are moving those are not mechanics those are what they would call greasers and now in the boiler room if you see the men that are shuffling Cole with wheel barrels those men are called trimmers to keep the coal back then equalize on both sides of the vessel so that the soul does not list to one side or the other.
I love how the old school version of throttling was just telling the lads down in the engine room what to do.
And if they piss them off they might not get the message first time 🤣🤣
A steam ship I worked on, the William C Daldy steam tug in Auckland, New Zealand, had written down on a small blackboard what revs the engine was to do for whatever command was sent to the telegraph. This gave you a good idea what to do.
Still is iirc- on any large ship it's still the same system as we see here; order given to the engine room which then carries it out.
@@gregoryborton6598 in modern ships it is a computer automatically controlling the engine rather then guys.
@@theVtuberCh
You still need engineering crews "down there" monitoring the engines at all times.
Steam engines always sound alive to me, as if they breathe in and out with every stroke. I love steam power!
i mean teachnically, they do breathe lol
@@asbestosfibers1325 you can watch and hear it step by step with these big steam engines.
"HRUFFFFFFFFFF HRUFFFFFFFF HRUFFFFFFFFFF HRUFFFFFFFFFFF"
gas engines dont sound like that.
@@davecrupel2817 gas engines sound like mini explosions xD
Well... They do.
Me too
There's a certain mechanical beauty to it.
Like a fine watch movement, all the parts moving in concert.
🧐 indubitably.
There's no reason for a watch, of all contraptions, to hog all the glory of this kind of mechanical excellence
Remarkably clean engine room, and remarkably responsive engines. Also remarkable that a reciprocating engine steamship was built as late as 1955.
Perhaps they had the bits kicking around...
I was thinking the same thing. I wonder why it wasn't Diesel? There's nearly always a good reason but I'd just like to know.
ThePaulv12 I'm guessing but I imagine that this was because in 1955 the UK was still very much a coal producing and consuming nation, with no indigenous oil yet discovered. Coal was abundant and cheap, and not at the mercy of foreign governments like oil.
@@spencerwilton5831 That makes sense as the reason why it was coal-fired, but why reciprocating instead of steam turbine?
Steam engines were allways responsive once up to operating temp. Especially when your talking about triple expansion engines. Super efficient, powerful at low rpm with high torque.
Steam engines for example took a LOT of skill to be able to power off from a start, they would often axle tramp with a little bit of moisture. The same steam engine principal types are still used today just gas driven boilers.
there's just something so great about steam engines, just watching those moving parts is so brilliant
We're so used to internal engines with the working parts closed up. It's really cool to see so much of the working engine parts out in the open
The builders usually built them with enclosed cranks, but since she was intended for 'passenger trade', the engines were left open so that passengers to go down and watch them at work!
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Watching UA-cam videos like this is one of life's greatest luxuries.
it's a bouncy castle🤣
Seriously, this ended up being cooler than I thought it was going to be.
It's cool because it's hot
It's hard to imagine that this is probably what Titanic was like on her maiden voyage. Just a crew working together keeping the ship running day and night and then dying together to keep the power going until the last.
That's grim. But it was a lot bigger than that. Some huge pistons and valves. Like this big
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@@FlatBroke612 why you are flat broke he could just pay you to do it instead. 😂😂
@@FlatBroke612 Don't worry. We understand that you do not have the ability to discuss history maturely. Keep up the 'good work' of resorting to sex jokes for cheap laughs.
@@FlatBroke612 but why do you have to be so butthurt about literally nothing?
Honestly there’s something about the delicate mechanics of steam engines that’s just magical to watch
Steam engine
As advanced as technology nowadays is, these steam engines that run smoothly would still bring a big smile to my face. There's always a unique beauty behind these engines no matter what. This is brilliant art at work.
History 1901 technology
History 1901 technology
smile to you but a disaster for the engineers onboard😂
I just love hearing thise bells, and the repeated instructions over the sound of the engine. Thankyou.
I want that bell on my bicycle
The engines sound they are in very good condition.
Keep steaming
DAVID TAYLOR very large reciprocating steam engines will run forever with proper maintenance. We had Victorian era pumping engines basically running day in day out well into the 1970's, and many would still be working had the economics of operating them not adjusted to favour electric pumps.
@@spencerwilton5831 You are doing a great job preserving these engines.
Steam engines were the greatest invention changing the world for the better.
I was a marine engineer many years back but only worked on diesel engines.
I was on this boat almost ten years ago, it's great to know it's still in service. I have just reserved a place on her for the Bournemouth air show, can't wait.
I used to work in these engine spaces as a Student in the 1990s. Shes a remarkably well preserved old lady and much loved by her crew.
I was a third assistant on a 2,500 H.P. triple expansion. Used to love making rounds checking the bearings. Got your knuckles rapped a few times but you'd get the rhythm. Had to get inside the engine to check the crossheads, quite a feeling.
I used to go down into the engine room of the USS Jeremiah O'Brian at Fort Mason in San Francisco when they did the monthly firing of its triple expansion steam engine. It still amazes me that they cranked those Liberty Ships out every three days in WW II.
we had the assembly line to thanks for those vessels. and the last of them are headed to the scrap yards. or ship breaker yards.
Well not quite every three days. That was a publicity stunt they did once. But still impressive
“FULL ASTERN!”
“NOW ENGAGE THE REVERSING ENGINE!”
Shut all the dampers, Shut Em
FULK AHEAD FULL!!!
@x X S P I R I T ØF 87 X x did you just say "why the turning"? Its why ain't they turning.
The ship actually stopped the engine, not reversing them as the movie presents.
@@faronomus1589 …I don’t know if this is true but if they did the reverse engine it would mess up the turning
This is an amazing functioning example of marine engines that were state of the art before steam turbines began replacing them. It does however appear a small army of engineers and sailors are required to operate and maintain it.
I have operated such an engine in the 60's on the Great Lakes J. Clare Miller and etc. But our engine were very much bigger. The stroke was over a deck level long as our engine was over three deck high. You could walk thru the engine to oil it and had to touch the cross heads in motion to feel for hot spots needing oil. We operated at 90 rpm a minute and as high as 115 on very rare occassions.
And what speed would that warrant your vessel?
@@ryantimm97484 knots
The beautiful hypnotic sound of a triple expansion steam engine in motion.
Excellent!! This reminds me of when I was a ‘wee boy’ and used to be taken down to ‘see the engine’ on the old Clyde Paddle Steamers!
They used to molest you down there ehh?
@@FrenchJae Bruh-
Ask them to stick their hands into the engine
Lot of engine movements early on. You could do it on a steamship but motor ship compressors couldn't keep up with the starting air demand. I was on a Blue Flue ship when the old Scottish Chief phoned the bridge and told them "You've got one choice left, 1 start or 2 toots on the whistle, make up your mind".
Thank you for posting this. Ex Navy Boiler technician, and Merchant Marine engineer here.
I truly enjoy watching mechanical things in action and seeing how they work... ever since I was a little kid.
I just stumbled across this - I spent a week onboard the Shieldhall as part of my Engineer Cadetship at Warsash School of Nav in 1987 (I think). Shieldhall used to transport the pooh out beyond the Isle of Wight (in less enlightened days) where she would surreptitiously dump it in the sea while the crew waved to the swimmers... . I remember helping refit the 'bottom end' bearings. We clubbed together to bet that one of our number, Ken (from Kirkintilloch in Scotland) would not jump off the bow into the murky waters of Southampton docks - he took the £25 and jumped straight in in his boilersuit. Great memory, great ship. Thank you.
Beautiful footage! I’m mostly into steam locomotives, but watching all those pistons and valve gear was mesmerizing
I know, right? 😂
I always feel like it’s roughly the same thing with Steam Ships and Steam Locomotives! Even if one’s a bit more complicated than the other, it still comes down to Coal, Boilers, Heat and Steam. 🤗
@@oscillation9814 and a whole bunch of turning parts!
Amazing 800hp steam engine. And I can't imagine that was Titanic engine, which has 46000hp 😯
Titanic's engine had 15 000 hp.
All combined made 46 000 hp
@@bobbybobby7943 I know
Each reciprocating engine generated 15,000 shaft horsepower, the low pressure turbine another 16,000. All ran surprisingly slowly compared to modern diesels I have seen in operation aboard ships I build, which are far smaller and lighter but generate 20,000 shp each.
@@Heliotail Modern diesels can run up to 108,000 hp in huge ships like the Emma Maersk!
@@dundonrl And WW2 battleships generate over 160,000 hp!
Very cool....to think that was all designed without computers. Literally on the ol' drawing board with rulers and pencils. Then machined without any CNC's, just pure craftsmanship. Nothing against computers, it's just amazing what mankind did without them.
Served in a minesweeper with very similar triple expansion engines with a bit more hp. What you can't see in the video is the oil that is mixed with the steam that leaks from all sorts of places so that there is warm mist mixture of steam and oil in the engine room which coats everything and everyone - constant cleaning of handrails and decks was important because if they became slippery then people could tip over when the ship rolled and end up with body parts in moving machinery. Tiller flat, where a steam engine powered the steering gear, was a particularly grotty place because it was unmanned and therefore got cleaned less often - in that place various items were stored, fenders etc, that were used by seamen and these items were typically coated in oil which ended up on hands and uniforms - engineers didn't give a big rats arse about seamen getting oil all over them and just concerned themselves with cleaning the engine room where they worked.
Just imagine if they saved the Olympic as a museum one could tour and see her engines running.
Every single room restored to just as she was the day she she passed her seaworthy trials.
From the stately reading room to the ships main galley to the sumptuous fittings of hand carved wood. There’ll not be another I’ll fancy.
Why, just her massive steam condenser, was larger than many a ships engines.
Harland & Wolff , Belfast Northern Ireland.
From stem to stern her and her two sisters were marvelous examples of the shipbuilders craft.
The RMS Olympic
The RMS Titanic
The HMHS Britannic
“Right then,,, we go full ahead!” The last of her twenty nine double ended boilers has just been 🔥 lit.
‘‘Twas the Chief Engineer’s pride to ensure that the last ounce of power was gleaned of all that steam.
Good morning Mabel, Myrtle, and Constance. How are we feeling today?
Lets show the Captain what we can do.
54,000 tons at twenty five knots, well done!
The Nomadic is a museum. This is the last ship of the White Star Line.
It would be fantastic to have saved the Olympic, it would be a hell of a tourist attraction here lol. They have the SS Nomadic restored and in dry dock beside the Titanic centre in Belfast though.
Well if the Olympic had been saved her triple expansion engines would have been the largest of their kind surpassing the Kempton engines.
And...25 knots was actually beyond the Olympic class maximum speed tho. They sailed at around 24 kts top speed and 21 kts service speed but rumor has it the Olympic exerted herself up to 25 knots once when she tried to rush to the rescue of her sister Titanic
As a kid in the 80's, being from the Detroit area originally, I rode the Boblo boats a few times, and I remember as a kid being absolutely fascinated by watching the engine room from atop the deck looking down. There's even a video on here about it.
Steam, the way God intended machinery to be powered.
Lamo😂
I absolutely love watching those pistons at work. I dont know why they fascinate me so much. And the bigger they are the better i like them.
Beautiful how all the crew work on these magnificent type of steam engines
I want me one of those Telegraphs in my house, they're amazing. 😍
They look like a casino game
I got 1 for sell
from the bedroom to the kitchen "eggs ahead!, coffee to stern!"
I really do too! It would be so cool to use one!
@@Ryansanders80 Lmfao, id use it for the laundry.
A lot of men in those days must've finished their careers with industrial deafness.
Diesel is not silent either
@@pavlovezdenetsky7824 True. But today there are ear defenders which didn't exist before.
@@phillipecook3227 Ear defenders became necessary when Diesel engines came into use, because of the noise.
It brings a smile to my face to see this grand old lady out and about it truly does
I worked as cabinetmaker, got hypertension from the deafening whine of all the high machine tools spinning at 70,000 rpm
Finally got smart and landed a job as a deckhand on tugs towing fuel oil where I would fall asleep to the purr of Detroit Deisels beneath my bunk and the sound the prop turn 700 rpm, a low thrum throughout the boat.
Like living in a giant cat it was
Tommy Petraglia you must be a old deckhand. Detroit’s out here are a thing of the past. Everything going green, but those Detroit’s wouldn’t die. Could blow a head and have water in the cylinder and still get it turned over and running.
@@bradgt5130
We carried two spare heads and 2 power packs and made repairs underway. I decked on boats in the 90's some laid down as early as 1970, with the Barney Turecamo fresh from the shipyard in 1995 powred with twin 3000 EMDs.
Oh how I loved that rattle and hum to lull me to sleep when I hit the rack
This is real engineering and the power of steam. Reminds of my first ship in the Royal Navy. A Loch Class Frigate with Triple Expansion Steam Engines.
Pretty cool to think that old sailing warships had engines like these, just imagine sailing with the wind in your brand new 500 gun ship then you just see an enemy warship chugging towards your location with all it's sails stowed away. Must have been a surprise to sailors to encounter steamships for the first time.
Is for those extremely gorgeous steam engine that i gone in a nautical school to became naval engineer cadet.The loud noise and the up and down of those machines are like a heart,to me.But not only:a propeller shaft is like the time that goes....i feel life in those engine,and their revolutions are to me as a tranquillizing.Today i love big diesel engine,too.But you cannot see parts like steam engines...but today they are our proud!! Tanks for this beautiful video.Cheers from Mediterranean Sea,Italy.
What a beauty! Good to see this engine running.
She actually has 17 operational steam engines. Aside from her 2 main triple expansion engines, all her capstans, steering engine, fuel pumps, boiler air blowers, boiler return feed pumps, bilge pumps, fire pumps and DC generator are steam powered. She carries a diesel generator for AC power and an emergency diesel fire pump. She's very well looked after by a crew of volunteers.
I’m not entirely sure why there are so many comments about the titanic as pretty much all ships built in the early-mid 20th century had steam engines. But it’s a wonderful piece of machinery
Harrison Rawlinson A ship, with triple expansion steam engines, departing Southampton...ring a few bells?
Starboard Lines yeah that’s true, but so did hundred and hundreds of other ships...
Harrison Rawlinson But she was, and is, the most famous ship, and shipwreck.
There's a ship in the US like this that has maiden voyages between Michigan and Wisconsin called the S.S. Badger.
Yes! I saw that on YT. She's been in service a long time & still going strong. Google "Bob-Lo Island," "SS Ste. Claire" & SS Columbia."
This just goes to show how well these guys work because the bridge is constantly make adjustments
Only love listening to the signal bell
For those of us on this side of the pond there are two WWII vintage Liberty ships with engines like this and you can go for a sail on them One is the SS Brown out of Baltimore, the other is the SS Jeremiah O'Brien out of San Francisco. The engine room of the O'Brien (with some digital enhancements) was the engine room of the Titanic in the Cameron movie.
Walking into the engine room of one of these ships when she is under weigh is a truly amazing experience.
@@yonatan62 A while back I watched an old Royal Navy film about taking a steam ship from cold to ready to sail and I had the same realization, it was just like a giant Coleman stove. (I have one of the classic green stoves from the 70's). I hadn't thought much about what was actually going on when the oil is burned, but what you are saying makes perfect sense, as liquid oil (or gasoline for that matter) doesn't burn.
@Bill Williams I'll bet he had a lot of stories, and it was great you were able to hear them. None of my uncles were in the military, one was a researcher at Oak Ridge, another was a doctor (which somehow kept him out of the service), and the others were farmers, which was a strategic occupation.
I even had an ancestor who went to Canada to avoid the war... the Revolutionary War!
The Steamship Shieldhall is Britain's largest working steamship. This video introduces her, from her build and working life in the Clyde to her present active retirement based in Southampton.
Old ship engines always calmed me the had a certain charm for that the modern ship engines don't
reminds me of happy if tough days, have not seen a movement book since serving my time with Harrisons
Some thing in me wants this job so much
Wow! Great to see an old school engine room controls.
anyone else find steam engines really satisfying to watch
That's a well lubricated machine, good work mechanics!
That what she said🤣🤣🤣🤣
i don't even know anything about this. but i'm here watching with the bags of popcorn
What a beauty. So sad so many triples were scrapped here in the states, I hadn't found a my in my region
KingSlimjeezy I believe that the car ferry SS Badger in Ludington MI is a twin screw recip engine. It’s even coal-fired.
@@greghartford9316 You are correct Greg. Just traveled on the Badger a few days ago. Nice calming sound coming from those engines. Saw the coal pile in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. A conveyor system feeds in the coal. Nice consistent 16-18 knots for 4 hours. Wonderful ship. Oh, sadly the last one in North America.
Bless my pistons, this is where Tom Swift spent all his time in his various adventures around the globe!
You know, it’s remarkable that they still put triple expansions in a ship in 1955. I would have thought that by then all the steamers would have had steam turbines.
With Corliss valve gear, triple expansion reciprocating engines are quite efficient. Factor in reduction gear cost and the economics may have favored reciprocating over turbine.
speed150mph it's believed this ship was the last one ever fitted with this type of engine. Reportedly the engine's had been sat around, in the ship yard for a while.
I sailed as an engineer on one in the late 1960s , a lot bigger than this one though
The Shieldhall was a bit of a throwback in 1955 but she was designed for short coastal runs in and out of the Clyde Estuary, so turbines would have been expensive and the efficiency/speed benefits would have been minimal - the trip from the Shieldhall sewage works to the point where the 'cargo' was dumped was only about 40 miles each way, made at around 10 knots. The ship had to be twin-screw to provide the manoeuverability needed to dock at the cramped wharf at the sewage works and for navigated the narrow and heavily-trafficed Clyde. So twin turbines, with full reversing capabilities, was an unneccessary cost. The triple expansion engine was old-fashioned but it was cheap, simple, reliable and, in the service Shieldhall was designed for, surprisingly economical. Especially at a time when marine diesels in the 800-1000hp range were still something of an unknown quantity in the UK.
But the Shieldhall was also designed to be a bit deliberately 'old-school.' Alongside her primary role as 'sludge boat', she did double duty as a pleasure steamer taking passengers on day trips (the passengers would be served lunch or tea in the saloon - with the doors and windows tightly shut! - while the sludge dumping was in progress!) and there was a long tradition on the Glasgow Corporation ships of passengers being able to visit the engine room and bridge while the the ship was at sea. So the use of the old reciprocating engines was partly a deliberate choice to give the passengers something interesting to look at. In a way the ship was a tourist attraction from the moment she was built. IIRC by 1955 the shipyard that built her already did a line in very modern high-speed steam engines with enclosed crankcases and full-pressure lubrication (so from the outside they looked rather like a diesel) but Glasgow Corporation insisted on an old, low-speed, open-crank design and made them dust off the blueprints for an engine design from the 1920s.
@@jozg44 there were dozens of diesel engines of the 800 to 1000 hp range available and manufactured in the uk in the 1950s
Triple expansion have the best sound, like a perfectly timed orchestra
I'm from Sydney,Australia and this reminds me of the steam ferry we have, SS SOUTH STEYNE, which has a 4 cylinder triple expansion steam engine
Would that be like a quadruple triple expansion engine? :-))
Loved the video , reminding my own experience on similar engine , twin screw , tripple expansion with 4 scotch boilers , a long time ago , Thank you for the video.
Does this remind anyone of Titanic?
Yes very much so. What ship is this on?
nope
Yes, of course, she had triple expansion steam engines much like this.
@@mattseymour8637 SS 'Shieldhall'.
Yea but titanic have big one of that
Full ahead half ahead steam engine just like Titanic ... Awesome work 👏👏👏
I'm just here thinking about all the machining that went into these huge moving parts, fantastic!
And it was all done without the aid of computers.
@@bachelorchownowwithflavor3712 They had the next best thing for the job: Mathematicians.
You can't convince me that these engines aren't the pinnacle of human engineering. Sometihng this responsive and this beautiful on this scale, not using the computers and electronics that virtually all of today's engines do.
蒸気往復機関なのかな？手入れが行き届いていて美しい。
機側でテレグラフ操作して動かすなんて・・・痺れますねえ。
あんまり詳しくはないんですが・・・
ブリッジで操作したのを、機関室が「了解‼」の意味で、同じところに矢印を動かすんだったかな？
欧米諸国は、こうゆうのも大事にしていて、ちゃんとメンテナンスして動くようにしてますけど、日本ときたらねぇ？
Its so satisfying watching those moving parts move
Another great video! Love the camera angles!
SteamCrane thanks
Awesome how controllable the engines are beautiful mechanical engineering
Thanks to Mr. Stephenson
Our training ship Glen Strathallan in London back in 1967 had a triple expansion steam engine, 700 HP from memory. You could definitely hear each individual cylinder’s different beat. Unfortunately it was scuttled only a few years later.
With the advances in oils I wouldn’t be surprised if the engines in the video last a lot longer than when they were made.
From what i've heard. the engines on the RMS Olympic at the time of her scrapping were still in good condition. Compared to the engines on the RMS Mauretania
A beautiful form of mechanical art!
What an exotics signal bell sound. I love it.
Cheers from Indonesia
steam engines are such marvels of man. engines alone are one of the best inventions mankind has ever made
As batidas dos motores a vapor soam como música,muito fascinante ver todo o funcionamento do motor já que os motores a combustão são obrigatoriamente fechados,lembrou me muito a sessão de cinema em 1997 quando assisti Titanic pela primeira vez.✌️🇧🇷
There is something romantic about the steam engine, and I will greatly miss it once we move into the era of electric motors.
That bridge crew needs to make up their mind!
The constant engine changes are because the ship is being maneuvered away from her berth at the docks under her own power and not tugs.
Plus at the end of said dock, is a curve, so she has to manoeuvre out of the way of such.
Captain just fuckin with em , yuk yuk yuk!
@@niobraraterminalrailroad2709 The ship will only do this when in southampton.
Heathrow Aviation And the description says it was departing from Southampton.
On ships with this engine it feels like she has a heartbeat. And when you pour the coals to her, she fairly leaps, surging ahead with a full head of steam!
The movie DEATH SHIP made me check this out
Po edi ejo ato babziturit
This, along with the PS Waverleys engines is a delight to watch.
Motor Maravilhoso, detalhes impressionante do seu funcionamento, o charme dos instrumentos analógicos em Bronze.👏👏👏👏
Yes! I was in engine rooms of cargos ships in 1960's were we did just that, all the way to New Zealand!
Imagine this is how the Titanic departed
A bit more defrently cause the ship is big
Aww. I googled "SS Shieldhall." She has a happier life now than the one for which she was created.
"Ah'm geeven' er all she's got, Cap'n!"
"Well that's not good enough!"
"If we push these engens too hard, she's gan'ta blo, Sir!"
me bearin's canna handle the strain!
Sounds like Bones @ enterprise.com
That's what she said 🤣🤣🤣
Great piece of engineering great video thanks for sharing this footage with us kind regards
And they say a fine watch is complicated. These big steamer engines got them beat by a mile.
Proud to me in the family of marine engineer . Sound of marine engines reminds of deep sea sailing . Keep going on marine engineers keep her moving ❤️. Hey mighty ocean your son is coming to be inside you 🌊🌊🌊
I heard the engines sound said work...work...work... 🤣
Very interesting, and a window to what ships and operating them were like a century ago.
hey you , I am not that old
My luck it would be rough seas and I would somehow fall in the machinery.
Don't worry lad, atleast there will be some form of railing, watch yer arm though, the seas are unforgiving
Wooow. Amazing BIG GIGANTIC STEAM ENGINE. So beautyfull Sounds in work.❤❤❤
Please more more making such videos.
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that looks fascinating and scary at the same time
This engine room stod model for the engine room scene in Titanic
Really? I thought it was the Jeremiah o'brien
It was the Jeremiah O'Brien that James Cameron used to take a video of it and somehow with the aid of computer computer animation made the two 5 story tall engines for the movie Titanic and the engine in the center on the Titanic was a steam turbine something new in those days and if you look at the mechanics that were lubricating and greasing the engines at the same time as they are moving those are not mechanics those are what they would call greasers and now in the boiler room if you see the men that are shuffling Cole with wheel barrels those men are called trimmers to keep the coal back then equalize on both sides of the vessel so that the soul does not list to one side or the other.
3:45 Ahhhhh yes, the classic sound of steam pistons working, or maybe the sound of an Iron Golem slowly dying in lava.
給油(グリスさし)が大変そう。
Those engines are literal works of art
なるほど、タイタニックの映画のエンジンルームみたいな音はしないのね。
hi
タアタニックは蒸気タービンだったと思うけど、これって蒸気機関車みたいな蒸気レシプロかいな？
スクリューを回すやり方が違いますから、作動音が違ってて当たり前と思いますよ？
What an amazing video… hope I use the correct terms, but I love the lubrication channels cut out in the crosshead bearings … such cleaver design