Word: boilers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...launch is laid up for the winter at Sawley's yard, South Boston. The boat is an expensive one to run. She has a coil boiler which has a habit of bursting about every other day. The virtue of being able to get up steam in a few minutes has to be paid for by an uncertainty of keeping it up. The cost of keeping the boat in repair is fully equal to that of running her. She is not a good boat for cold weather. There is no house over the running gear, so that the many water pipes...
...building as a whole is not, however, finished. The slaters and copper smiths have just completed their work, and the steam fitters are now engaged in setting up the large boiler and steam radiator with which the building is to be heated. The entire structure has been lathed and will be plastered during the coming three weeks. Although it was thought a month ago that the work would be finished by the first of March, it is more probable that it will be the last of the month before the building is fully completed...
...openings in the main roof and the cage which have been left for windows, while the roof covering the tank and the north side are slated. The masons have nearly finished laying the brick in the tank, and are also engaged on the fire-place at the entrance. The boiler has arrived and will be soon placed in position. The outside work is now so nearly completed that bad weather will not hinder much in the construction...