StoneRoad2013's photos with the keyword: Turbinia

TBA - hull cut-away

TBA - hull cut-away

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14 Mar 2014 369
A section of hull plate has been replaced with clear polycarbonate to enable the engine room to be viewed. There is not a lot of room in there.
TBA - Helm

TBA - Helm

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14 Mar 2014 246
Turbinia's wheel is mounted horizontally, and turns the opposite way to the direction you want to go. Note, the limited forward view, at speed the bow-wave and general spray must have made seeing out difficult. No wonder that there is a handrail for someone to stand as conn on the roof above.
TBA - Funnel

TBA - Funnel

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14 Mar 2014 283
This yellow funnel needed a repaint after every speed trial. Rumour has it that at times flames, not just smoke, came out of here.
TBA - Feed Pumps

TBA - Feed Pumps

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14 Mar 2014 229
Boiler water feed pumps - supplied from the condensate from the exhaust turbines. Three turbines, two high speed for forward propulsion and the lower pressure third turbine was the brake and reverse gear.
TBA - Air Pump

TBA - Air Pump

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14 Mar 2014 229
Used to pressurise the two stoke holes to the boiler. Over pressure keeps the fire in the firebox (reduces danger of blowbacks) and improves combustion - but the stokers have to work harder !
TBA - Turbines

TBA - Turbines

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14 Mar 2014 255
The used steam from the turbines feeding into a condenser and back to the boilers - this means heated feedwater in a closed cycle which is more efficient, and conserves the fresh water supply.
TBA - Stokers' hole

TBA - Stokers' hole

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14 Mar 2014 305
Teams of two stokers worked down here, there is another aft of the boiler. To improve combustion - and to prevent blowbacks - this area was pressurised; which meant the stokers had to work even harder - no wonder the funnel needed a repaint afterwards.
TBA - Steering Quadrant

TBA - Steering Quadrant

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14 Mar 2014 233
Deck mounted steering quadrant.
TBA - shapely stern

TBA - shapely stern

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14 Mar 2014 418
Turbinia's stern is curvaceous, to say the least.
TBA - shafts

TBA - shafts

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14 Mar 2014 1 372
Charles Parsons was experimenting with propellers as well as turbines. He had to overcome design problems such as gearboxes and cavitation - all done without computers.
TBA - propellors

TBA - propellors

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14 Mar 2014 2 9 756
Three shafts, three propellers. On what is now termed a displacement hull. Safety Fence - to keep people off the prop shafts, and out of a low-headroom zone.
TBA - Log

TBA - Log

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14 Mar 2014 240
traditional log - recording speed through the water. However, Turbinia made great use of the measured mile, just up the coast, usually used for proving trials.
TBA - Information

TBA - Information

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14 Mar 2014 388
Information Panel about the Turbinia Gallery, with the well known image of her at speed. There has been quite discussion about the identity of the gent on the conning tower.
TBA - from above

TBA - from above

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12 Dec 2013 1 430
Deck, showing - from bows, Anchor, chain locker, cabin /deck house and bridge / helm, fore-stokehole, funnel, aft-stokehole, engine room control / access, engine room deckhouse, tender, crew access hatches, steering quadrant......and finally, her stern.
TBA - Turbinia; from bows looking aft

TBA - Turbinia; from bows looking aft

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12 Dec 2013 3 2 818
Almost at the water line view.
TBA - looking down

TBA - looking down

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12 Dec 2013 389
View from the Stern forwards. Items visible are......log, ensign pole, steering quadrant, two hatches (crew access), clinker tender, engine room roof / access, funnel, bridge / flybridge ... ....the long and thin profile is noticeable - length / beam ration is better than the 1 : 10 for canal narrow boats.
TBA - knife-edge

TBA - knife-edge

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13 Dec 2013 5 830
Turbinia's knife-edge bows. (no stem-post, as such) Dimensions - 104 ft 9 ins x 9 ft beam and 3 ft draught with 44.5 tons displacement. Top Speed - 34.5 Knots (39.7 mph / 63.9 kph)