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SS Mona's Isle (1882)
SS (RMS) ''Mona's Isle'' (III), No. 76304, the third ship in the company's history to be so named, was a paddle steamer which served with the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company until she was purchased by The Admiralty in 1915. Construction & dimensions ''Mona's Isle'' was constructed by Caird & Co. at Greenock and was launched on Tuesday, 16 May 1882. Caird & Co. also supplied her engines and boilers. Length 330'7"; beam 38'1"; depth 15'1". ''Mona's Isle'' had accommodation for a crew of 56, and was certificated to carry 1,561 passengers. Her engines developed 4,500 i.h.p. which gave her a service speed of 18 knots. The engines were quite remarkable for their day. The oscillating engine had slowly developed from low pressure jet condensing with all the demerits that salt water intake involved, to higher pressure surface condensing that was the forerunner of the turbine circulating system. These were the first high-pressure engines of this type to be adopted by the Steam Pack ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isle Of Man Steam Packet Company
An isle is an island, land surrounded by water. The term is very common in British English. However, there is no clear agreement on what makes an island an isle or its difference, so they are considered synonyms. Isle may refer to: Geography * Isle (river), a river in France * Isle, Haute-Vienne, a commune of the Haute-Vienne ''département'' in France * Isle, Minnesota, a small city in the United States * River Isle, a river in England Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment'' (or ''ISLE''), a journal published by Oxford University Press for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment *''The Isle'', 2017 film with Conleth Hill * ''The Isle'', a 2000 South Korean film directed by Kim Ki-duk * ''Isle'' (album) Other uses * International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE), a learned society of linguists See also * Aisle An aisle is, in general, a space for walking with rows of non-walking spaces o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inches
Measuring tape with inches The inch (symbol: in or ″) is a unit of length in the British imperial and the United States customary systems of measurement. It is equal to yard or of a foot. Derived from the Roman uncia ("twelfth"), the word ''inch'' is also sometimes used to translate similar units in other measurement systems, usually understood as deriving from the width of the human thumb. Standards for the exact length of an inch have varied in the past, but since the adoption of the international yard during the 1950s and 1960s the inch has been based on the metric system and defined as exactly 25.4 mm. Name The English word "inch" ( ang, ynce) was an early borrowing from Latin ' ("one-twelfth; Roman inch; Roman ounce"). The vowel change from Latin to Old English (which became Modern English ) is known as umlaut. The consonant change from the Latin (spelled ''c'') to English is palatalisation. Both were features of Old English phonology; see and for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coaling (ships)
The era of the steam warship powered exclusively by coal was relatively brief, lasting from 1871 until 1914. Although the French ironclad ''Gloire'' and the iron hulled in 1860 both had coal-fired boilers and funnels, their purpose was to provide additional speed in battle. Sails provided their main propulsion most of the time so, unlike , the first ship built without sails, these were not true steamships. Although much faster than sail, the lengthy refueling or coaling required by steam ships brought considerable additional risk to the ship and hardship to the crew. These drawbacks led to the replacement of coal by oil. Coal itself also required maintenance. Coal cannot be pumped and, once loaded, it had to be continuously moved to ensure bunkers nearest the boilers were always full should full power be suddenly needed. These problems were sufficiently serious for the Royal Navy to build as an oil-fired ship despite an abundance of coal and a shortage of oil in the United Kingd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS King Orry (1871)
SS Royal Mail Ship, (RMS) ''King Orry'' (II) Official number, No. 45479 – the second vessel in the company's history to bear the name – was an iron paddle-steamer operated by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company. Construction and dimensions ''King Orry'' was built by R. Duncan & Co., at Port Glasgow in 1871, with engines by Rankin & Blackmore, and launched on Monday 27 March 1871. Length 260'; beam 29'4"; depth 14'7", ''King Orry'' had an original tonnage of , and this was later increased to 1,104. Her original speed was 15 knot (unit), knots. In 1888, ''King Orry'' was refitted by Fairfield & Co at a cost of £8,246. She was lengthened by 30 Foot, feet, and at the same time she was reboilered by J. Jones & Co for £4,080. This thorough refit gave her a new boiler pressure of , her diagonal compound engine now had a stroke of 78 inches with a high-pressure cylinder of 52 inches and low pressure 92. Consequently, her speed was now increased from to . In 1895 she was gi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
