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23rd March 2023, 08:05 AM
#11
Re: Steam Engineers a Sad Day
Originally Posted by
Bill Morrison
Hi John. Both cost and progress. From F. C. Bowen's SHIPS.
Bill.
As a deck man I have a rudimentary knowledge of boilers, but the photo of the boiler room brought back my close encounters of same when on a 1914 built coal fired trawler (H402) and as a spare was expected to do any job given, including feeding coal to the boiler, not a pleasant job on a bucking bronco. It may be much maligned progress when changing to oil, but I'm sure many appreciated that progress
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