I’m looking for information about her machinery layout, in particular the boilers.
Her sister ship Admiral Latorre aka HMS Canada had 21 boilers spread across 4 boiler rooms - boiler room
A - 3 boilers
B-D - each with 6 boilers.
According to DK Brown Eagle left the Tyne in 1920 with only half her boilers installed but, according to various sources, only 2 were used during her subsequent trials.
But when completed as a carrier she is recorded as having 32 Yarrow boilers (some sources describe them as small tube type). According to Janes 1929 & 1938 she still had 32. Now the puzzle. One of her stokers is noted as having said she only had 21 at the time of her sinking in 1942.
So how many boilers did Eagle have as a carrier? What type of Yarrow boiler? And how were they divided amongst her 4 boiler rooms, one of which seems to have been half the size of the others (like Canada) according to a drawing I’ve seen?
TIA
Her sister ship Admiral Latorre aka HMS Canada had 21 boilers spread across 4 boiler rooms - boiler room
A - 3 boilers
B-D - each with 6 boilers.
According to DK Brown Eagle left the Tyne in 1920 with only half her boilers installed but, according to various sources, only 2 were used during her subsequent trials.
But when completed as a carrier she is recorded as having 32 Yarrow boilers (some sources describe them as small tube type). According to Janes 1929 & 1938 she still had 32. Now the puzzle. One of her stokers is noted as having said she only had 21 at the time of her sinking in 1942.
So how many boilers did Eagle have as a carrier? What type of Yarrow boiler? And how were they divided amongst her 4 boiler rooms, one of which seems to have been half the size of the others (like Canada) according to a drawing I’ve seen?
TIA
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