View allAll Photos Tagged engine
One of the four Wright R1820 engines of 1200hp each. They were supercharged to allow for high altitude flying.
Friday 23rd April 2010, I'm seen bolting up the rear flange pipes out the back of the cooling knuckle, this was a really fiddley job given the small bolts and close clearance gaps between the pipes.
Cobb's engine house officially known as windmill end pumping station used to remove water from local mines the shaft was 525ft deep removing over 1,600,000 liters of water into the canal everyday the building is grade 2 listed
USS Texas (BB-35), the second ship of the United States Navy named in honor of the US state of Texas, is a New York-class battleship. The ship was launched on 18 May 1912 and commissioned on 12 March 1914.
Soon after her commissioning, Texas saw action in Mexican waters following the "Tampico Incident" and made numerous sorties into the North Sea during World War I. When the United States formally entered World War II in 1941, Texas escorted war convoys across the Atlantic, and later shelled Axis-held beaches for the North African campaign and the Normandy Landings before being transferred to the Pacific Theater late in 1944 to provide naval gunfire support during the Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Texas was decommissioned in 1948, having earned a total of five battle stars for service in World War II, and is now a museum ship near Houston, Texas.
Among the world's remaining battleships, Texas is notable for being the only remaining WW I era dreadnought battleship, though she is not the oldest surviving battleship: Mikasa, a pre-dreadnought battleship ordered in 1898 by the Empire of Japan, and HMS Victory, launched 1765 (Nelson's Flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar), are both older than Texas. She is also noteworthy for being one of only six remaining ships and the only remaining capital ship to have served in both World Wars. Among US-built battleships, Texas is notable for her sizable number of firsts: the first US Navy vessel to house a permanently-assigned contingent of US Marines, the first US battleship to mount anti-aircraft guns, the first US ship to control gunfire with directors and range-keepers (analog forerunners of today's computers), the first US battleship to launch an aircraft, from a platform on Turret 2 one of the first to receive the CXAM-1 version of CXAM production radar in the US Navy, the first US battleship to become a permanent museum ship, and the first battleship declared to be a US National Historic Landmark.
(Text Wikipedia)
Authors Note: Truly remarkable!. As soon as you see the sight of this magnificent Dreadnought battleship you know that you are in for a rare treat! However when you actually tour the ship you are even more impressed with the quality of the detail, the open access and the information provided. Its as if the crew had just gone ashore. Unbelievably good!
By an unknown maker, this steam engine was used to drive wooden paddles, via chain drive and line-shafting, in the sewage intake culvert. Slaked lime was mixed with the sewage to reduce the obnoxious smell and reduce the acidity of the waste from the nearby breweries. Claymills Victorian Pumping Station near Burton-upon-Trent
993cc of pushrod power...no seriously, this venerable unit first saw service in 1962 and packs more torque than the buzzing 3-cylinder Family 1 that succeeded it.