Marine Engineering Historical Library

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Our most popular historical pages

Biography of Rudolph Diesel - A condense version, with pictures and related files. Prime mover developments - A chronological timeline of important events in the development of the diesel engine, and other prime movers of ships.

Doxford opposed piston engine

Main Area (short history, types, links, documents, etc) Pictorial of the Sunderland "Works" Damages resulting from various failures Technical drawings List of Doxford engines in Argentinean ships

Articles and other interesting tidbits

Detroit Diesels North American diesel icon Robert Swanson blows his horns across the world Liberty ships - some history after the war Liberty Ships - A complete list Liberty Ships - a list of modified ships Flags and Gun Salutes - A guide On ship's names Russian icebreaker fleet development Legends of liners Birth of the bulker   A word from the QE2's Chief Engineer   Engineers at sea: exploring our roots Seasoned sailor terms Sailor's glossary   Sailors glossary - terms used in 1814 Sailor's weather tips Denis Grifiths' British Marine Industry and Diesel

Documents from around the world

Cunard Liners History of fuel injection The Greatest Liners in Detail The Greatest Transatlantic Shipping Lines White Star Liners 2006 Russia's Nuclear Icebreaker fleet 2006 Short history of the container Popular Science on the "new" Normandy 2004 History of undersea cables Part 1 1983 Nuclear Merchant Ship Savannah 2000 About Samuel Cunard

Historical Books from around the world

History of Danish shipping company Rederiet M.H. Simonsen Hodder Tugs - Story of local Vancouver BC Tug company

Drawings and engineering plans

Tom Bates, a contributor to the site, is the initial driving force behind these; he kindly submitted many old and interesting drawings, plans and was the seed for this area of the site. Thank you. 

	Selected pages from the October 1912 edition of Marine Engineer and Naval Architect magazine.		1867 general plan of the French Navy Monitor
	1937 Engineering drawings of a Steam Winch.		1886 detailed drawings of a small French Navy, steam powered launch
	1937 Engineering drawings of a Triple Expansion Steam Engine.		1913 General plan of the USS Jupiter, looks like a collier
	1939 Engineering drawings of a pump.		1922 Engine room plan of the MS San Benito, a turbo electric driven cargo ship
	1939 Engineering drawings of various Auxilliary Machinery.		1922 Elevation drawings of the engine room of the steamer Tuscania
	1939 Engineering drawings of a Circulation Pump.		Detailed drawings of the French Navy steam powered torpedo patrol boat
	1939 Engineering drawings of a Steam powered ship's helm.		General engine room plan of the liner Cap Arcona
	1939 Engineering drawings of Steam Auxiliary.		Detailed drawings of the steam powered French Navy warship Kersaint
	1939 Engineering drawings of Electrical equipment.		Engine room layout of the Royal Canadian Navy HMCS Haida, tribal class warship
	General arrangement of the French Navy's Corsaire, a high speed torpedo boat, 1893.		A fantastic look in and around the US Coast Guards icebreaker Mackinaw
	General arrangement of the MS Crux, a twin screw, motor freighter.		General arrangement comparison of the engine room on Olympic and Titanic.
	General arrangement of the MS Dominion Miller, featuring a four cylinder Doxford main engine.		A write up in the October 1912 edition of the Marine Engineer and Naval Architect magazine, of the Sabathe Marine Oil Engine.
	General arrangement of the MS Louisiana, featuring a B&W main engine.		General arrangement of the engine room on SS Aquitania.
	A write up in the October 1912 edition of the Marine Engineer and Naval Architect magazine, of the MS Monte Penedo, the first German built motor ship.		A write up in the October 1923 edition of the Marine Engineer and Naval Architect magazine, on the SS Port Hardy, a refrigerated liner.
	General arrangement of the engine room of the MS Pinzon, featuring a 1250 hp six cylinder diesel motor.		General arrangement of the SS Sjomand, a 1922 oil tanker.
	General arrangement of the engine room on the MS Tantalus. State of the art 1923 B&W twin inline 8 cylinder engines.		General arrangement, and detail engineering drawings of the French Navy, 500 hp steam ships, Victorieuse & Prevoyante.
	General arrangement of the engine room on MT Capena.		ER layout of various steam turbine driven ships of the first half of the 1900's.
	Side drawing of the lumber steam schooner Wapama (aka Tongass). A type of vessel used in the West Coast trade in the 1900's.		ER layout of Sir Parson's yacht, Turbinia, which made a splashy entrance during the Royal Navy Fleet review of 1897.

 

Other areas of the site which may be of interest to you

The Ship's Library contains the bulk of our collection of articles, exam help, documents and such. One area, past accident reports, could also be of interest in historical sense, click here to see this area.   Most of my original works are published on our blog, The Monitor. Over 2006 - 2009, over 300 blog entries have been made there. The Marine Picture Archive holds a tremendous amount of ship pictures, both new and old, as does the Video Library.

On the web - Interesting reading

Brad sent us a link to his extensive archives on Woodwards controls Read about a massive typhoon that the US Navy unsuccessfully challenged in Dec 1944. Read about un-happy demises of various engineers at the Doomed Engineer Historical perspective of inventions are discussed at Engines of our Ingenuity Retired Dutch Engineer Verheijden compiled this website on the Doxford engine (available above, as well) Oil Rig Disasters are chronicled by Simon in the UK US Submarine propulsion diesel engines history and function explained

 

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