Toured the USS Olympia

KC_Jones

Spent the weekend in Philadelphia with friends. We toured the USS Olympia on Sunday. As soon as I walked in I saw this little gem and I just had to share it. Plenty of these all over the ship.

FranklinD

Beauty! I posted last summer with some pictures of pipe radiators from the whaleback ship that we have in town here...all over the ship, some huge, some small, still has the original coal fired boiler too. The nautical stuff is super interesting to me.

Someone, may have been Steamhead, mentioned in that post that they ran pretty high pressure through them too, 60psi is the number I seem to recall. I'll have to look up the old thread.

BillW

Did you get a chance to check out the refrigeration plant and the engine room? Both are amazing. Complex mechanicals at their best.

KC_Jones

Yes I saw the refrigeration plant. The engine room could only be seen from above when I was there, they don't let you down into it. I have seen those triple expansion engines in action on the John W. Brown liberty ship in Baltimore which still cruises.