Austrian Lloyd’s Steam Navigation Co. Steamers Italia, Germania, Europa, ? and Asia,...

Steam Boat Engines (17 items).

1192. Austrian Lloyd's Steam Navigation Co. Steamers Italia (HY & HZ), Germania (GA & GB, FC & FD), Europa (FE & FF), ? (FG & FH), Asia (FI & FJ). Sep., Oct., Dec. 1846, Feb., Apr., May, Aug. 1847, Jun. 1856. 17 items.
Six sets of two 115 horse power oscillating engines, with 59 inch cylinders, 4 foot strokes.

Plan and sections of boiler - 2 partially coloured original drawings and 1 partially coloured reverse drawing; plan of deck beams etc. - coloured reverse drawing; plan of engines and boiler etc., longitudinal section of engine room and boiler, cross-section of boat and engines, cross-section of boat aft of the boiler front, cross-section of boat fore of the boiler front - set of coloured reverse drawings; Lamb's Patent Blow Off Apparatus adapted to the Austrian Lloyd's boiler - coloured reverse drawing; longitudinal section and plan of boilers and engines - coloured reverse drawing; plan and section of platforms for engines and stoke hole - partially coloured reverse drawing; ladders for engine room and stoke hole - coloured reverse drawing; press copy memorandum of "dates upon which the 1st pair of Austrian Lloyd's engines were sent from Soho Foundry"; memorandum of cubical contents of the condenser, hot water cistern and waste water pipes. All the drawings were made in the London office and bear letter codes.
Also the following later items: sections and plan of tubular boiler "for the New Austrian Lloyds Co." - partially coloured original and partially coloured reverse drawings made in the London office, Jun. 1856. These drawings bear letter codes.

Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 983. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 322, 324.

For the Austrian Lloyd's Steam Navigation Co. One set of drawings was used for all six sets of engines. The second pair of engines to be sent, GA and GB, was intended for the Germania but was lost when the ship carrying them sank en route in 1848. Therefore the third pair of engines, FC and FD, originally intended for the Europa, was placed in the Germania, and the Europa received the fourth pair, FE and FF. The name of the boat which received the fifth pair, FG and FH, is unclear; Engine Order Book No. 13 gives the boat as the Italia, but the note is only made in pencil, and Boat Engine Book No. 6 does not give a name for the boat. Henry Hazleton allocated separate portfolio numbers to all the sets of engines, despite the fact that they did not have separate drawings: Italia's was Pf. 1192; Germania's first set was Pf. 1193; her second set was Pf. 1194; Europa's was Pf. 1195; the fifth set was Pf. 1196, and Asia's was Pf. 1197.

See also: Portfolio 6/62a.