Water heaters

Usage examples of boilers.

One of the mothballed heavy cruisers over in the west yard had settled right to the bottom over the period of a month, flooding out the opened steam turbines and eight boilers left opened under a dry layup.

It was just another lifeless fire room, the huge shape of the boilers and all the piping flickering in his vision as he stood on the grating above the fire room and pointed the helmet light around the space.

The immense two-story bulk of the stainless steel-clad boilers glinted in the light, surrounded by a myriad of pumps and steam lines shrouded in their white asbestos lagging.

At the bottom of the ladder, Dan found himself standing on deck grating between the two steam boilers, which stood side by side like two stainless-steel buildings.

The pistons were motionless in their cylinders, and they were apparently powerless, and the engine-driver, fearing for his boilers, was letting off the steam.

The ship, with engines and boilers, was calculated to weigh about 420 tons.

The boilers were not out, but since they had been disengaged from the drive shafts, there was a sudden cessation of the steady rhythmic vibration that the engines had sent through the ship.

Dlubine, but they were alive, the ship was in good shape, and they were free of pursuit by dawn and able to engage the boilers once more and proceed in the heat regardless of the wind.

Ultimately, it became too hot for anyone to even handle the boilers, and they went to sail and more or less just drifted along, taking four-hour shifts at the wheel.

But without order-strengthened black iron, the Nordlans were limited in what their boilers could handle.

The big generator plant near the entrance to the area still stands, its boilers rusting, its windows gone, water dripping shyly across its floor while the wind rattles the high steel catwalks and pigeons flutter in its rafters.