Re: Steam Power Off Subject Maybe general i nterest?

Posted by Hal/WA on February 18, 2003 at 21:21:41 from (208.8.194.18):

In Reply to: Steam Power Off Subject Maybe general i nterest? posted by Ol Chief on February 18, 2003 at 20:04:31:

Thanks for the information about those ships. My now deceased Uncle was an officer in the Merchant Marines through WWII, but he was on larger ships than the Libertys and was in the Pacific. I know that he was in charge of the boilers and engines. He kept up his papers and went to sea every few years (and made great money). He ran industrial boiler shops in his civilian career working for Kaiser.

I wish I had asked him more about his days at sea. It seems very interesting.

I am guessing that by using the 3 expansions of the steam, the engines were much more efficient than the steam tractors and locomotives that were used in this country. The engine on the Liberty ships must have been huge! Efficiency in fuel economy and manpower doomed steam on the farms and the railroads. But maybe if oil gets too expensive it will be used again.

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