Published Resources Details Journal Article

Title
Compound surface condensing cutter engines
In
The Engineer
Imprint
vol. 68, 13 December 1889, p. 489
Description

Accession No.207

Abstract

Three four and three quarter inch by nine inch by five inch stroke inverted-vertical double-acting compound surface-condensing marine engines operating at 420 revolutions per minute on steam supplied at 130 pounds per square inch by horizontal marine boilers with steel tubes, were built by A G Mumford, Culver-street Ironworks, Colchester, for Forresst and Son, boat builders, Norway Yard, Limehouse, who had installed them in three life cutters, built for Sir William Armstrong, Mitchells and Company.