Steam Pump aboard the wreck of the Mahoning

[survivingworldstea]

All;

Thank you very much for all of the information and pictures.  You have helped me sort out what I am looking at; a portable steam boiler, lying on its side, with a centrifugal pump sitting next to it.  Tamara Thomsen's picture was the first one I saw; it looked like a locomotive type boiler to me; but everyone kept referring to the steam pump.  It all make sense now.

I assume the centrifugal pump was originally driven by a small vertical steam engine, that may have been salvaged; like this:



The Conservation Department of the Mariners Museum in Newport News, Virginia was asking just like week if anyone had any information about centrifugal pumps of this vintage, a centrifugal pump was raised along with the Worthington pumps from the U.S.S. Monitor.

Brad; my e-mail address is james@survivingworldsteam.com.  I am looking forward to seeing your pictures.

Doug; what wreck was the picture taken on?  I own five steam pumps; four of them look very similiar to this one:



None of mine come from wrecks; most are worn out pumps from an area petrochemical plant.

The centrifugal pump aboard the Walter B. Allen is a newer affair; it appears to be powered by a small steam turbine, instead of a vertical steam engine.  It would be fun to "chase pipes" to see how it was set up.

All of this is very interesting; I will be sharing a link to this thread with the Steam Lizards Group on Yahoo.  In the past, I have researched the steam pumps found on board the Titanic and her sister ships, and a steam pump found aboard the wreck of the steamer "Manuela", sunk in San Juan Harbor during the Spanish American War.

-James Hefner
Hebrews 10:20a