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This is the original double-ended Scotch boiler from PS Waverley. It was manufactured by Rankin and Blackmore of Greenock and installed in the vessel when it was built in 1947. It is now a rare example of a boiler of this type and size, and its impressive dimensions give a good indication of the size of the vessel’s engine room and machinery spaces. | | | | This boiler produced steam which powered Waverley’s triple expansion engine. The Scotch boiler was almost universally used during the ‘golden age’ of steam propulsion, and is another innovation developed on the Clyde by James Howden. It was designed to produce steam at relatively high pressures via a series of flues and firetubes. The three circular plates at the front provide access to the furnaces, where the fuel was burned. This boiler is double-ended, meaning that it has furnaces at both the front and back, which meet in the combustion chamber in the middle. Double-ended boilers reduced the number of single boilers fitted to certain ships, but were longer and more difficult to install. The casings on either end took the waste gases to the vessel’s two funnels. | | | | Waverley was built by A & J Inglis for the London and North Eastern Railway. She was the last sea-going paddle steamer to be built, and is a real survivor as she is still in operation today. This boiler was removed in 1981, having been converted from coal to oil burning in the winter of 1956-57. She was fitted with a new Babcock Steambloc boiler, which itself was replaced in 2000. In 2003 a major restoration project was completed, with Waverley returning to her original 1940s style. She now sails around Britain offering regular trips on the Clyde, the Thames, the South Coast of England and the Bristol Channel, with calls at other ports and piers throughout the country. | | | | On loan from National Museums Scotland |