The Locomotive . known, was in the neighbor-hood of fifty. The City of Trenton was a light-draft boat, built expressly for navigatingthe shoal water between Bordentown and Trenton, N. J. She had twin screws,•and was fitted with two vertical, two-cylinder engines. She had two boilers of 194 THE LOCOMOTIVE [July, the locomotive type, placed in a compartment forward of the engine compart-ment, and situated about amidships. The front ends of the boilers faced thebow of the boat, and their rear ends were connected to a smoke-box and onestack. The boiler that exploded was on the port side of the boa
The Locomotive . known, was in the neighbor-hood of fifty. The City of Trenton was a light-draft boat, built expressly for navigatingthe shoal water between Bordentown and Trenton, N. J. She had twin screws,•and was fitted with two vertical, two-cylinder engines. She had two boilers of 194 THE LOCOMOTIVE [July, the locomotive type, placed in a compartment forward of the engine compart-ment, and situated about amidships. The front ends of the boilers faced thebow of the boat, and their rear ends were connected to a smoke-box and onestack. The boiler that exploded was on the port side of the boat, and a subsequentinspection showed that the starboard boiler was not seriously disturbed, andthat it was, in fact, comparatively uninjured. The port boiler was blown fromthe boat, apparently going up furnace-end first, and turning a somersault in theair. It fell into the river, but it was shortly raised from the river bottom, andplaced on one of the piers of Neafie & Levys shipyard, where it was examine I. Fig. 2. — The Exploded Boiler of the City of Trenton. by the coroners jury, by the officials of the United States Government, and bythose of the city of Philadelphia, in the investigations that followed. The en-gravings show the boiler as it appeared on the pier. The explosion consisted in the failure of the crown-sheet. This sheet, whichis seen protruding from the furnace in both the illustrations, was blown down-ward and forward, carrying with it a portion of the upper part and center of thetube-sheet, and striking against the front sheet of the furnace. It thus turnedpractically inside out, and a part of it, with a piece of the tube-sheet attached,projected six feet or more below the bottom of the water-leg. When the crown-sheet came down, it pulled away from the riveted screw-stays entirely, leaving them attached to the jaw braces, which stAl remained 1907.] THE LOCOMOTIVE 195 fastened to the inside of the outer shell. .Many of the crown-bolt holes in the crown-shee
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