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Immerse yourself in the history of power shipping as you explore objects tracing the development of marine engines and the ingenuity of important British inventors and manufacturers.

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Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

Marine Engines

1853-1857

Speedboat: 'Miss England I', used by Segrave to contest World Water Speed Records, with various components

Marine Engines

1929

Model of Robert Duncan's screw propeller, with stern frame and rudder, as fitted to the Egyptian government yacht 'Sareea

Marine Engines

1886-1887

Working model of the double trunk steam engines, as used on HMS 'Minotaur (1867) and HMS 'Northumberland' (1868)

Marine Engines

1845

Radial Flow Parson's Turbine Engines

Marine Engines

1894

Whole model

Marine Engines

1949

Model of Chadburn's ship's Telegraph

Marine Engines

1875-1938

Single-pass Babcock and Wilcox water-tube marine boiler

Marine Engines

1965

Model of a pair of side-lever engines from the H.M.S. 'Dee', (1832)

Marine Engines

1832-1851
The original engine of Henry Bell's paddle steamer, ‘Comet’, by John Robertson and David Napier, Glasgow, Scotland, 1812

The original engine of Henry Bell's paddle steamer

Marine Engines

1812

Hydroplane 'Bullet II' with 'Watermota' outboard engine

Marine Engines
Speedboat: 'Miss England I', designed by Hubert Scott-Paine and build by the British Power Boat Company, Hythe, Hampshire, England, 1929

Speedboat: 'Miss England I', used by Segrave to contest World Water Speed Records

Marine Engines

1929

Model of the PS 'Charlotte Dundas'

Marine Engines

1903

Modified side-lever marine engine

Marine Engines

1840-1850

Prototype ring propeller

Marine Engines

2003

Specimen showing Brown-Curtis turbine blades as fitted to H.P. casings

Marine Engines

1933

Portable propeller pitchometer and diagram

Marine Engines

1896-1912

Model of oscillating paddle engines for Thames steamboat

Marine Engines

1842-1850

Whole model of P.S. 'Comet'

Marine Engines

1895-1900

Quadruple expansion launch steam engine of the condensing type

Marine Engines

1898

Original Maudslay oscillating marine paddle engine used on paddle ships and thames speed boats

Marine Engines

1827

Original Vickers Marine Gas Turbine

Marine Engines

1947

Framed photograph of Robert Fulton's original design for steamboat

Marine Engines

1803-1950

Model of the four-bladed screw propeller from HMS 'Lord Warden' (1865)

Marine Engines

1865-1870

Model of Yarrow boiler as fitted in warships of the Chilian Navy

Marine Engines

1903

Model of an 8 element 'Belleville' marine steam boiler

Marine Engines

1896-1897

Model, of Walter James Griffiths patent 1880 four bladed screw propeller

Marine Engines

1880

Replica of the Parsons experimental "Turbinia" model

Marine Engines

1894-1910

Curved section of model of portion of the stern of a cargo vessel

Marine Engines

1911-1922

Water tube marine boiler

Marine Engines

1965

Constructional model, of a ship’s stern, showing the screw steamer Novelty’s propeller arrangements

Marine Engines

1838-1840

Model of Thornycroft Schulz boiler as fitted in warships of the British Navy

Marine Engines

1903-1904

Two-bladed screw propeller from 'Miss England II'

Marine Engines

1930

Photograph, one of five, illustrating turbines of H.M.S. "Bristol".

Marine Engines

Scotch single ended return tube marine boiler (c. 1870). Model scale 1:12 in card by Sidney Poore

Marine Engines

1965

Model of fixed flat paddle-wheel patented by William Henry Muntz

Marine Engines

1862

Model of a geared capstan incorporating epicyclic gearing

Marine Engines

1820-1830

Parson's no. 2 geared turbine fitted to a launch, with two explanatory diagrams

Marine Engines

1897

Stern model, demonstrating an arrangement for lifting auxilliary screw propellers

Marine Engines

1850-1890

Hand-crank model of a Thomas Silver patent governor

Marine Engines

1857

Portable propeller pitchometer and diagram

Marine Engines

1896-1912

Model of an 'Overlead' cable windlass as fitted R.M.S. 'Amazon'

Marine Engines

1906-1909

Model of vessel S.S. 'Francis Smith' with screw propeller

Marine Engines

1836-1857

Model of Fields cycloidal paddle wheel

Marine Engines

1833-1890

Model of adjustable-pitch screw propeller

Marine Engines

1849-1853

Two-blade right hand weedless propeller

Marine Engines

1905-1914

Model vessel fitted with paddle wheels

Marine Engines

Working demonstration model of a Voith-Schneider Marine Propeller (c.1926-1929)

Marine Engines

1926-1946

Model, of a two-cylinder inverted compound type engine and boiler

Marine Engines

1885-1918

Wood model

Marine Engines

1843