Eastern City (5)
Steering gear and aft mooring winches. |
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Looking aft to steering gear room. Left is ladder to poop deck. Right is storage for oil drums. Ladder on right is access to boiler flat. In the foreground are hydraulic pumps for aft mooring winches. This photo was taken on ship 887 and different pumps are fitted on the Eastern City. |
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| Close up of the Hastie steering gear. "A" is the grease pumps for the rudder stock bearings, and a close-up of these pumps can be seen on the right. | ||
These are the hydraulic pumps for the aft mooring winches as fitted on the Eastern City. A similar set is in the fo'castle for the forward mooring winches and windlass. |
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| This photo is an overhead view of the starboard side of the steering gear. |  |
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| A view of the aft deck during sea trials and on the right is a close up of the starboard side during construction. All photos copyright © Reardon Smith Ships. | ||
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Building Eastern City. Page [1]
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