>>I actually am pretty familiar with steam-driven vessels.<<
So am I, (Retired Navy) and I know how cramped the arrangements were. The vessels contemporary to 1912 and earlier were even worse. What wasn't taken up by a nearly solid bank of boilers and it's assocciated piping arrangements was taken up by coal bunkerage. The higher pressure plants which would help alleviate some of this problem by making it possible to get higher pressures and more power out of smaller boilers was at least a quarter century away.
>>It was a good deal smaller than Titanic and it would have been entirely possible to fit the pumping outfit I described, had there been any reason to do so. Not economic, of course, but possible. <<
I'd be interested in seeing how you could do it on an Olympic class liner.
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So am I, (Retired Navy) and I know how cramped the arrangements were. The vessels contemporary to 1912 and earlier were even worse. What wasn't taken up by a nearly solid bank of boilers and it's assocciated piping arrangements was taken up by coal bunkerage. The higher pressure plants which would help alleviate some of this problem by making it possible to get higher pressures and more power out of smaller boilers was at least a quarter century away.
>>It was a good deal smaller than Titanic and it would have been entirely possible to fit the pumping outfit I described, had there been any reason to do so. Not economic, of course, but possible. <<
I'd be interested in seeing how you could do it on an Olympic class liner.
(NOTE: Apologies to the forum for the blizzard of SPAM posts which were in here. I have since removed them.)