Thought this was interesting:
SS Delphine, the Largest Steam Yacht Ever Built in the US, Is Up for Auction
The propulsion system included three Babcock & Wilcox boilers powering two 1,500 HP (1,100 kW) quadruple-expansion engines designed by Dodge himself.
Horace Dodge, one of the car company brothers.
Is it still steam
Or has it been repowered?
Looks like new boilers, refurbished quadruple expansion steam engines. No info on the new boilers though:
Looks like she’s being auctioned off after the owner didn’t pay his shipyard bill, as is, where is.
It would be a cool Sea Scout ship
From the Wikipedia page: SS Delphine (1921)
In her 2003 refit Delphine was re-equipped with two modern water-tube boilers operating at 20 bars (290 psi), the larger of which has an evaporation capacity of 14 metric tons (31,000 lb) of steam per hour while the smaller can evaporate 4 metric tons (8,800 lb) per hour;[4] these new boilers supply the original quadruple-expansion engines. "
Good heavens do I wish I were wealthy!!!
I would purchase her in a second if I had the financial bandwidth.
What a magnificent steam museum as well as an apparently very well restored yacht of an era that simply no longer exists.
I’ll make a prediction here, which may not be popular. I can clearly see Jay Leno purchasing this incredible gem. And I would be entirely thrilled if he did. This is perfectly in his wheelhouse… pun intended…
We shall see.
The article refers to the design as an “inverted bow”…is that the actual nomenclature for that inward curving leading bow edge? Reminds me of the ships of the Great White Fleet.