2009

SU3912 : SS Margaret Hill - water tube boilers

taken 15 years ago, near to Millbrook, Southampton, England

SS Margaret Hill - water tube boilers
SS Margaret Hill - water tube boilers
Opportunities to visit steam turbine powered ships are now few and far between and the recent scrapping of older passenger tonnage due to stricter SOLAS regulations has not helped. SS Margaret Hill was a liquefied natural gas carrier with the boilers fired on boil-off gas (BOG - yes really). The vessel was built in 1974 by Moss at Stavanger, Norway and fitted with a General Electric cross compound steam turbine of 30,400 horsepower and good for 19.5 knots. This shows the upper level of the boilers with the steam drums arranged longitudinally. These could be fired on oil or boil-off gas. The vessel is now believed to have been scrapped.

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This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · SS Margaret Hill [18] · Believed to have been Scrapped [2] ·
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Chris Allen   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Saturday, 21 March, 2009   (more nearby)
Submitted
Saturday, 29 June, 2013
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SU 392 121 [100m precision]
WGS84: 50:54.4441N 1:26.5797W
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OSGB36: geotagged! SU 392 121
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