Ship Engine Room - Triple Expansion Engines Onboard Steam Ship Shieldhall 

Titanic 2 engine cylinder engineering diesel generator room

Titanic 2 engine cylinder engineering diesel generator room

I notice few strands of white hair stuck to the conn rods 11:10. I guess not the conn rods but maybe a walking beam

Diesel generator

Diesel generator

Diesel generator

Diesel generator

Diesel generator

Diesel generator

Diesel generator

Diesel generators

Diesel generator room

Diesel generator

Diesel generator

Diesel generator

Death ship is a good watch

Steamship Titanic

Motrice. Alternativa??. Si. Capisce. Poco....... Nn. Si. Vede la. Caldaya....

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It's he engine drivers acknowledging the bridge's orders, as it moves a needle on the Bridge's telegraph.

The point of moving the engine order telegraph further than the required setting is to make the bell ring several times, instead of only once when going from, lets say slow astern to half astern. However, many people working on steam ships today have a "nasty" habit of ringing the telegraph by going to full ahead or astern, before going to for example slow astern. This was never a recommended practice in earlier times. The risk is that the chain for the engine order telegraph could seize up on full astern or ahead, and the engine room would have no way of understanding that this was not the desired setting. The recommended practice at, amongst others White Star Line, was therefore to ring back and forth in the standby-stop-finished with engines area, before proceeding to the desired setting.

I’m inquisitive about the telegraphs being ‘handed’. If an operator changed from one engine to the other was there a short time of confusion in the mind about which direction was being asked? I know its a left/right thing in us but I’ve seen this create problems elsewhere.

like a small version:)