15 November 2018

igenlode: The pirate sloop 'Horizon' from "Treasures of the Indies" (Default)
The Requin would not have had a water-tube boiler at this date. Which is just as well, because I wasn't visualising one!

She would probably have had compound vertical engines rather than the horizontal ones I've seen in films...

https://www.naval-history.net/WW0Book-Sennett-MarineSteamEngine.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_steam_engine
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