Miscellaneous Drawings – Steam Boats, 1813, 1814, 1831, 1840, 1858, 1859, 1863, 1881,...

MS 3147/7/26

Miscellaneous Drawings – Steam Boats, 1813, 1814, 1831, 1840, 1858, 1859, 1863, 1881, 1884, 1887, 1892, 1893 (21 items).

1813 - 1893

26. Miscellaneous Drawings - Steam Boats. 1813, 1814, 1831, 1840, 1858, 1859, 1863, 1881, 1884, 1887, 1892, 1893. 21 items.
Steam boats, boat engines, parts of boat engines etc. for various customers.

Clyde steamers Prince of Orange and Princess Charlotte:
Sketch elevation, plan and section - partially coloured drawing, 1813.

Tyne Steam Packet Eagle:
Elevation and plan of the Tyne Steam Packet showing the present sheer of gangway - partially coloured drawing, Sep. 1814.

H. M. Packet Ferret:
Plan of the deck, Oct. 1831.

20 horse Oscillating Engines:
Eccentric circle, rod etc. - coloured reverse drawing marked "for 2nd pair of engines", Jun. 1840.

Water gauge for boat boilers - coloured reverse drawing, Jul. 1840.

Two 375 horse Oscillating Engines:
Cylinders, slides etc. - coloured reverse drawing, Jan. 1858.
Working gear etc. - coloured drawing, Jan. 1858.
Working and starting gear etc. - coloured drawing, Jan. 1858.

Holyhead Steamers:
Section through steam box to trunnions - coloured reverse drawing, Oct. 1859.

Deerhound Yacht:
Condenser - partially coloured reverse drawing, Feb. 1863.

Walker & Co.:
Propellor for S. S. Newport - copy on blueprint paper, Jul. 1881.

Symon & Co.:
Details of propellor for tug - tracing, Oct. 1881.

Castle Steel & Iron Co.:
Arrangement of engine and shaft bearers - copy drawing, Jan. 1884.

Copies on blueprint paper of early steam boat drawings, made 1887:
Longitudinal section and plan of boiler for John Molson, Aug. 1811.
Side view of engine and boiler and plan of boiler for John Molson's Malsham, May 1814.
End view of the engine for John Molson's Malsham, May 1814 (with partially coloured tracing).
Plan and sections of boiler for Favourite, Nov. 1817.
[For the originals of these drawings see Portfolios 5/1240a & b (Molson) and 5/1251 (Favourite).]

S. S. Munster and Ulster (City of Dublin Steam Packet Co.):
Detail of cylinders (96 inch diameter, 7 foot stroke) - copy on blueprint paper marked "Not adopted", Apr. 1892.
Cylinder and slides etc. for 2 375 horse oscillating engines - coloured reverse drawing, Jan. 1858 [this drawing was of the original cylinders for the Munster and Ulster and was re-used].

First Class Torpedo Boats Nos. 94-96:
Screw propellors by Maudslay Sons & Field - copy on blueprint paper, Oct. 1893 (this tracing bears a James Watt & Co. letter code).