And if they piss them off they might not get the message first time 🤣🤣

A steam ship I worked on, the William C Daldy steam tug in Auckland, New Zealand, had written down on a small blackboard what revs the engine was to do for whatever command was sent to the telegraph. This gave you a good idea what to do.

Still is iirc- on any large ship it's still the same system as we see here; order given to the engine room which then carries it out.

@@gregoryborton6598 in modern ships it is a computer automatically controlling the engine rather then guys.

@@theVtuberCh You still need engineering crews "down there" monitoring the engines at all times.

i mean teachnically, they do breathe lol

@@asbestosfibers1325 you can watch and hear it step by step with these big steam engines. "HRUFFFFFFFFFF HRUFFFFFFFF HRUFFFFFFFFFF HRUFFFFFFFFFFF" gas engines dont sound like that.

@@davecrupel2817 gas engines sound like mini explosions xD

Well... They do.

Me too

🧐 indubitably.

There's no reason for a watch, of all contraptions, to hog all the glory of this kind of mechanical excellence

Perhaps they had the bits kicking around...

I was thinking the same thing. I wonder why it wasn't Diesel? There's nearly always a good reason but I'd just like to know.

ThePaulv12 I'm guessing but I imagine that this was because in 1955 the UK was still very much a coal producing and consuming nation, with no indigenous oil yet discovered. Coal was abundant and cheap, and not at the mercy of foreign governments like oil.

@@spencerwilton5831 That makes sense as the reason why it was coal-fired, but why reciprocating instead of steam turbine?

Steam engines were allways responsive once up to operating temp. Especially when your talking about triple expansion engines. Super efficient, powerful at low rpm with high torque. Steam engines for example took a LOT of skill to be able to power off from a start, they would often axle tramp with a little bit of moisture. The same steam engine principal types are still used today just gas driven boilers.

It's cool because it's hot

The builders usually built them with enclosed cranks, but since she was intended for 'passenger trade', the engines were left open so that passengers to go down and watch them at work!

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it's a bouncy castle🤣

History 1901 technology

History 1901 technology

smile to you but a disaster for the engineers onboard😂

That's grim. But it was a lot bigger than that. Some huge pistons and valves. Like this big kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ptp0edSKkpaon2w.html

@@FlatBroke612 why you are flat broke he could just pay you to do it instead. 😂😂

@@FlatBroke612 Don't worry. We understand that you do not have the ability to discuss history maturely. Keep up the 'good work' of resorting to sex jokes for cheap laughs.

@@FlatBroke612 but why do you have to be so butthurt about literally nothing?

Shut all the dampers, Shut Em

FULK AHEAD FULL!!!

@x X S P I R I T ØF 87 X x did you just say "why the turning"? Its why ain't they turning.

The ship actually stopped the engine, not reversing them as the movie presents.

@@faronomus1589 …I don’t know if this is true but if they did the reverse engine it would mess up the turning

Steam engine

I want that bell on my bicycle

we had the assembly line to thanks for those vessels. and the last of them are headed to the scrap yards. or ship breaker yards.

Well not quite every three days. That was a publicity stunt they did once. But still impressive

And what speed would that warrant your vessel?

​@@ryantimm97484 knots

DAVID TAYLOR very large reciprocating steam engines will run forever with proper maintenance. We had Victorian era pumping engines basically running day in day out well into the 1970's, and many would still be working had the economics of operating them not adjusted to favour electric pumps.

@@spencerwilton5831 You are doing a great job preserving these engines. Steam engines were the greatest invention changing the world for the better. I was a marine engineer many years back but only worked on diesel engines.

They used to molest you down there ehh?

@@FrenchJae Bruh-

Ask them to stick their hands into the engine

She actually has 17 operational steam engines. Aside from her 2 main triple expansion engines, all her capstans, steering engine, fuel pumps, boiler air blowers, boiler return feed pumps, bilge pumps, fire pumps and DC generator are steam powered. She carries a diesel generator for AC power and an emergency diesel fire pump. She's very well looked after by a crew of volunteers.

I know, right? 😂

I always feel like it’s roughly the same thing with Steam Ships and Steam Locomotives! Even if one’s a bit more complicated than the other, it still comes down to Coal, Boilers, Heat and Steam. 🤗

@@oscillation9814 and a whole bunch of turning parts!

Tommy Petraglia you must be a old deckhand. Detroit’s out here are a thing of the past. Everything going green, but those Detroit’s wouldn’t die. Could blow a head and have water in the cylinder and still get it turned over and running.

@@bradgt5130 We carried two spare heads and 2 power packs and made repairs underway. I decked on boats in the 90's some laid down as early as 1970, with the Barney Turecamo fresh from the shipyard in 1995 powred with twin 3000 EMDs. Oh how I loved that rattle and hum to lull me to sleep when I hit the rack

That what she said🤣🤣🤣🤣

Titanic's engine had 15 000 hp. All combined made 46 000 hp

@@bobbybobby7943 I know

Each reciprocating engine generated 15,000 shaft horsepower, the low pressure turbine another 16,000. All ran surprisingly slowly compared to modern diesels I have seen in operation aboard ships I build, which are far smaller and lighter but generate 20,000 shp each.

@@Heliotail Modern diesels can run up to 108,000 hp in huge ships like the Emma Maersk!

@@dundonrl And WW2 battleships generate over 160,000 hp!

Would that be like a quadruple triple expansion engine? :-))

The Nomadic is a museum. This is the last ship of the White Star Line.

It would be fantastic to have saved the Olympic, it would be a hell of a tourist attraction here lol. They have the SS Nomadic restored and in dry dock beside the Titanic centre in Belfast though.

Well if the Olympic had been saved her triple expansion engines would have been the largest of their kind surpassing the Kempton engines. And...25 knots was actually beyond the Olympic class maximum speed tho. They sailed at around 24 kts top speed and 21 kts service speed but rumor has it the Olympic exerted herself up to 25 knots once when she tried to rush to the rescue of her sister Titanic

あんまり詳しくはないんですが・・・ ブリッジで操作したのを、機関室が「了解‼」の意味で、同じところに矢印を動かすんだったかな？ 欧米諸国は、こうゆうのも大事にしていて、ちゃんとメンテナンスして動くようにしてますけど、日本ときたらねぇ？

They look like a casino game

I got 1 for sell

from the bedroom to the kitchen "eggs ahead!, coffee to stern!"

I really do too! It would be so cool to use one!

@@Ryansanders80 Lmfao, id use it for the laundry.

Harrison Rawlinson A ship, with triple expansion steam engines, departing Southampton...ring a few bells?

Starboard Lines yeah that’s true, but so did hundred and hundreds of other ships...

Harrison Rawlinson But she was, and is, the most famous ship, and shipwreck.

Yes! I saw that on YT. She's been in service a long time & still going strong. Google "Bob-Lo Island," "SS Ste. Claire" & SS Columbia."

@@yonatan62 A while back I watched an old Royal Navy film about taking a steam ship from cold to ready to sail and I had the same realization, it was just like a giant Coleman stove. (I have one of the classic green stoves from the 70's). I hadn't thought much about what was actually going on when the oil is burned, but what you are saying makes perfect sense, as liquid oil (or gasoline for that matter) doesn't burn.

@Bill Williams I'll bet he had a lot of stories, and it was great you were able to hear them. None of my uncles were in the military, one was a researcher at Oak Ridge, another was a doctor (which somehow kept him out of the service), and the others were farmers, which was a strategic occupation. I even had an ancestor who went to Canada to avoid the war... the Revolutionary War!

Diesel is not silent either

@@pavlovezdenetsky7824 True. But today there are ear defenders which didn't exist before.

@@phillipecook3227 Ear defenders became necessary when Diesel engines came into use, because of the noise.

Thanks to Mr. Stephenson

And it was all done without the aid of computers.

@@bachelorchownowwithflavor3712 They had the next best thing for the job: Mathematicians.

KingSlimjeezy I believe that the car ferry SS Badger in Ludington MI is a twin screw recip engine. It’s even coal-fired.

@@greghartford9316 You are correct Greg. Just traveled on the Badger a few days ago. Nice calming sound coming from those engines. Saw the coal pile in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. A conveyor system feeds in the coal. Nice consistent 16-18 knots for 4 hours. Wonderful ship. Oh, sadly the last one in North America.

From what i've heard. the engines on the RMS Olympic at the time of her scrapping were still in good condition. Compared to the engines on the RMS Mauretania

Yes very much so. What ship is this on?

nope

Yes, of course, she had triple expansion steam engines much like this.

@@mattseymour8637 SS 'Shieldhall'.

Yea but titanic have big one of that

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SteamCrane thanks

The constant engine changes are because the ship is being maneuvered away from her berth at the docks under her own power and not tugs.

Plus at the end of said dock, is a curve, so she has to manoeuvre out of the way of such.

Captain just fuckin with em , yuk yuk yuk!

@@niobraraterminalrailroad2709 The ship will only do this when in southampton.

Heathrow Aviation And the description says it was departing from Southampton.

With Corliss valve gear, triple expansion reciprocating engines are quite efficient. Factor in reduction gear cost and the economics may have favored reciprocating over turbine.

speed150mph it's believed this ship was the last one ever fitted with this type of engine. Reportedly the engine's had been sat around, in the ship yard for a while.

I sailed as an engineer on one in the late 1960s , a lot bigger than this one though

The Shieldhall was a bit of a throwback in 1955 but she was designed for short coastal runs in and out of the Clyde Estuary, so turbines would have been expensive and the efficiency/speed benefits would have been minimal - the trip from the Shieldhall sewage works to the point where the 'cargo' was dumped was only about 40 miles each way, made at around 10 knots. The ship had to be twin-screw to provide the manoeuverability needed to dock at the cramped wharf at the sewage works and for navigated the narrow and heavily-trafficed Clyde. So twin turbines, with full reversing capabilities, was an unneccessary cost. The triple expansion engine was old-fashioned but it was cheap, simple, reliable and, in the service Shieldhall was designed for, surprisingly economical. Especially at a time when marine diesels in the 800-1000hp range were still something of an unknown quantity in the UK. But the Shieldhall was also designed to be a bit deliberately 'old-school.' Alongside her primary role as 'sludge boat', she did double duty as a pleasure steamer taking passengers on day trips (the passengers would be served lunch or tea in the saloon - with the doors and windows tightly shut! - while the sludge dumping was in progress!) and there was a long tradition on the Glasgow Corporation ships of passengers being able to visit the engine room and bridge while the the ship was at sea. So the use of the old reciprocating engines was partly a deliberate choice to give the passengers something interesting to look at. In a way the ship was a tourist attraction from the moment she was built. IIRC by 1955 the shipyard that built her already did a line in very modern high-speed steam engines with enclosed crankcases and full-pressure lubrication (so from the outside they looked rather like a diesel) but Glasgow Corporation insisted on an old, low-speed, open-crank design and made them dust off the blueprints for an engine design from the 1920s.

@@jozg44 there were dozens of diesel engines of the 800 to 1000 hp range available and manufactured in the uk in the 1950s

me bearin's canna handle the strain!

Sounds like Bones @ enterprise.com

That's what she said 🤣🤣🤣

A bit more defrently cause the ship is big