Great commentary on a very interesting picture! I am wondering if this might be set in the Great Lakes. In the background you can see low rolling Canadian Shield type-country and the cribbing along the waterfront where it looks like it's high tide or maybe not tidal waters at all, and then there's t...

This is great stuff, gentlemen. I really appreciate the discussion. And yes, they did want to avoid having to force the boiler through a cycle to get steam up. They used the same little Karcher pressure-washer to wedge the boiler when the Master was laid up in her off season. Speaking of which- the ...

I had the priviledge some years ago of volunteering aboard the restored steam tug SS Master ( Arthur Moscrop, Vancouver,1922, triple expansion engine one of a pair built in 1918 for a cancelled Royal Navy minesweeper) while she underwent her steamship inspection and to test the safety valves we simp...

That makes sense. No it was disconnected so I was always curious about what it measured. The Samson V's triple pass boiler replaced the original locomotive-type boiler handed down from previous vessels in 1959. It has both an induced draught fan in the uptakes run off a single stage turbine and a tu...

On the triple- pass fire tube boiler of the preserved federal Department of Public Works sternwheeler Samson V (Mercer's Star Shipyards, New Westminster 1937) in addition to a fuel (bunker c)temp guage and the sight glasses is a small guage called "magnahelic" I have done maintenance and r...