Steamship Engine Room, Onboard 'Shieldhall' In Rough Seas - August 2018

Making the annual trip to Poole Qauy, we're onboard Britain's Largest Working Steamship, as the sea gets a little rough in the Solent.
The ship is fitted with two 800hp Triple Expansion Steam engines, supplied by two oil fired marine boilers.

[@nicholasbell9017]

Remembering our dear sailor friend Paul Goodhand who passed a year ago. He knew this engine room well. Love from Nick and Julie in Netley.

[@richardgwalker]

I will never forget my first "Gusting 10 on the nose" on our trip to dry dock in Falmouth in 2010. It took 36 hours, about 12 more than expected. In the dark, she was lifting out of the water and then slamming down again with a shudder! (Apparently, shudder's good, otherwise she'll break!) I went off watch at 00:00 with Eddystone light off to starboard. Returned at 04:00, what's that light off to starboard? Yes, "Eddystone"!! Skip said she was, and still is, one of the most sea-worthy ships he had sailed on.

[@richardgwalker]

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[@davidreifsnider4609]

Awesome seeing youngsters learning❣❣❣❣❣❣

[@deborahchesser7375]

I was wondering what the channels in those sliders were for until I saw the lubrication feeders, what a mesmerizing engine to watch, literally history in motion , I hope they keep her and all the ships like her running for many years to come.

[@steveanderson9290]

It's great fun to watch these videos and deduce the reasoning behind the engine design. If you want an engine with up and down power strokes, you need a pressure seal around the connecting rod. If you want to pressure seal the connecting rod, you need probably want to constrain it's motion to straight up and down. As such, you don't have the option of connecting it directly to the crank shaft, so you connect it to a secondary connecting rod to transfer the reciprocating energy to rotational energy. The happy accident is that you have a TON of room to install massive, easy to lubricate, slide bearings, to redirect the linear force to rotational. Elegant engineering!

[@CraigRycroft]

Cheers for posting this, as I've been meaning to get a cruise on her for years, so I've finally just booked myself on one & very much looking forward to it :-)

[@chieffirefigherplays]

How was it.

[@metricstormtrooper]

This Ship was feature in Robbie Coltrains "Planes and Automobiles"

[@ThomasAndrewsShipBuilder]

THIS IS *A M A Z I N G*

[@randomuser9883]

Thomas andrews I thought you died in the titanic disaster how are you alive

[@ThomasAndrewsShipBuilder]

@@randomuser9883 I'm living here under the sea on the Titanic

[@mattseymour8637]

Lovely sound! Remind me of Titanic!

[@dtaylor4552]

If Titanic The Legend Goes On should be remade they should record sound effects of preserved Steam Ships like the S.S. Shieldhall.

[@creeguyvernon]

I think these engines are only 1/3 the size of titanic engines

[@shawnbottom4769]

Ahh back in the days when girls couldn’t show their ankles but a handsome steam engine could let it all hang out.

[@timdekleijn8910]

Well, the ship's from the 50's, so I guess a moment in time when both were possible.

[@shirleymental4189]

wow theyve got huge spark plugs that engine.

[@ryanthompson2893]

There are none, it’s a steam engine.

[@overweightarchie]

Great video. How are the big ends lubricated?

[@chrisredding6673]

The crankshaft has oil passages drilled through it, which feed oil from the main bearings to the big ends and the valve gear eccentrics. See the oil pipes feeding the main bearings at 3:47. HTH.

[@chrisredding6673]

Correction: Looking again, those pipes look more like 'Stauffers', for injecting grease. You unscrew the cap, fill it with grease, and then screw it back in.

[@overweightarchie]

@@chrisredding6673 Thank you for your reply.

[@04clemea]

@@overweightarchie sorry for late reply, lot of comments to go through atm. The big ends are oil fed from a tray on the top of the engine. The oil runs down to top of the crosshead that can be seen at 3:00. The oil is then captured by a tray attached to the little end, that's just about seen in the video. The oil then runs through a pipe into the big end. Hope that helps.

[@overweightarchie]

@@04clemea Thank you very much for your reply. I am building a scale live steam model of Titanics port engine and have been stuck for information about bottom end lubrication. Your information corresponds with what I have discovered and I think both engines had similar bottom end lube.

[@zayghamnawaz9617]

What is the top sustainable speed of this ship.

[@tommcewan7936]

Probably slightly lower than she was originally capable of; IIRC, they don't really like taking the boilers all the way up to their original design pressure any more.

[@sammurabi4743]

What is that white lubricant on the crosshead at 3:32?

[@pordzio]

might be regular machine oil mixed in with water

[@MozkowZephyrusGauna]

It was like the Titanic but even smaller the little Titanic isn't that cool guys did you recognize it was like the Titanic😊❤❤😂

[@davidreifsnider4609]

What type of propeller system?? Paddle Wheel??

[@04clemea]

Twin screw propeller.

[@richardgwalker]

But only one rudder. She's a b****r to steer, submarines wouldn't get a chance with a torpedo, but very satisfying when you get it right! :-)

[@lindvallpaul9861]

well soon all ships are like this again when gasoline and diesel is gone

[@caitthenerd7470]

You know fuel oil, which is firing the boilers on this ship, comes from crude oil just like petrol and diesel right? So when those are all gone so too will the fuel oil be.

[@lindvallpaul9861]

@@caitthenerd7470 well yeah i know that. :) did you know you can change thoose boilers to not run on diesel or petroil..there is something calling woods and coal that you can run them on like old days.

[@timdekleijn8910]

@@lindvallpaul9861 Those are even less likely, since coal is a fossile fuel (will run out) and both are bad for the envirornment. But both internal-, and externalcombustion engines are likely going to be provided with an emmision neutral subsitute, or something like that.

[@Adamu98]

@@timdekleijn8910 well a boiler could burn anything flammable, alcohol, wood, charcoal, ammona, biogas, etc. Also there's nuclear power aswell which is also steam driven.

[@tommcewan7936]

@@caitthenerd7470 The Shieldhall's boilers were designed for solid fuel, actually; they had oil burners fitted in place of the coal grates at the last moment when she was built.