A unique exhibit in the Shipwreck Museum
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (340649)
Rockingham, Australia
May 21, 2022 6:51am CST
The engine shown here was recovered in 1985 from the SS Xantho, which sank in 1872, It is one of the exhibits in the Fremantle Shipwreck Museum in Western Australia, and is the only known example of the Crimean War Gunboat engine, the first mass-produced, high-revolution, high-pressure marine engines ever made.
After over a century underwater, the engine was released from its rock-hard corrosion products, disassembled, conserved and reassembled. It says much for the engine and its conservation that it can now be turned over by hand.
The second photo is a reconstruction of the engine room of the Xantho, showing how the engine, boiler and coal supplies would have fitted inside the ship. You can see that there was little space for the men, along with their tools, coal shovel, engine spares, water bag, vice, anvil, lifting gear, etc.
I’m sure the men who worked on the engine were thrilled with the result.
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@ptrikha_2 (47004)
• India
22 May 22
That sounds like a wonderful museum and exhibit.
In India too, if we can have such museums, it would get a lot of tourists and hence money and popularity.
A nice share !!
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@ptrikha_2 (47004)
• India
22 May 22
@JudyEv
So you would have to make a special trip to this place?
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@ptrikha_2 (47004)
• India
23 May 22
@JudyEv
Then it is a place for a quick visit by you !!
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@TheHorse (219306)
• Walnut Creek, California
22 May 22
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@luisga814 (7140)
• Quezon City, Philippines
21 May 22
This is a cool museum. I'm looking forward to visit that in the future.
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@luisga814 (7140)
• Quezon City, Philippines
22 May 22
@JudyEv Dream to become true.
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@snowy22315 (181176)
• United States
21 May 22
Old museums like that are interesting to visit.
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@FourWalls (68391)
• United States
21 May 22
Wow, that is amazing! A fabulous job of restoration, too!!
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@LindaOHio (179787)
• United States
21 May 22
Very interesting. Sounds like a very cool place to visit.
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@arunima25 (87820)
• Bangalore, India
22 May 22
It's a very narrow space to work. I feel cramped and claustrophobic looking at it 
. I am sure that it must be a tough place to work with all the noise these huge engines would have made. And that would heat up the place too. I am feeling so uncomfortable just thinking about all this.
. I am sure that it must be a tough place to work with all the noise these huge engines would have made. And that would heat up the place too. I am feeling so uncomfortable just thinking about all this.1 person likes this
@arunima25 (87820)
• Bangalore, India
23 May 22
@JudyEv It's amazing that how people go through such hardships.
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@Nakitakona (56486)
• Philippines
22 May 22
It's they're preserved for they've great historical importance.
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@Nakitakona (56486)
• Philippines
23 May 22
@JudyEv They're antique then and they cost a lot if they be sold by auction. But I think they won't be sold in public.
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