Hebe (1871); Recreation vessel
Scale: Unknown. Working model of the steam engine used on the 'Hebe' (1871) made entirely of metal and mounted on a turned wooden base. The engine consists of two cylinders mounted high up on A frames and is complete with a crankshaft, engine bed and a three-bladed propeller which overhangs the circular base. The engine bed is mounted on a small section of hull plating and on the other side of the engine is a large rectangular condenser together with a series of six smaller cylinders which in turn operate valves and levers on the main engine. The whole model has been mounted on a circular gilded metal disc on top of the wooden base.
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Object Details
ID: | SLR2114 |
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Collection: | Ship models |
Type: | Engine model; Component model |
Display location: | Not on display |
Creator: | J. & G. Thomson & Co |
Vessels: | Hebe 1871 |
Date made: | circa 1870 |
Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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