Word: fireroom
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...smokestacks, even of battleships, crumpled like paper. The blast passing down the cruiser Pensacola's stacks blew open the boilers' fire doors-which would have brought death by suffocation to all the fireroom crews...
...officer of the deck on the U. S. S. Bennington one night in the early '90s cruising in the vicinity of Barbados when a school of flying fish flew over the bridge. Just abaft the bridge were two large cowled ventilators leading down into the fireroom. A few minutes later the engineer officer on watch called up through the voice tube that several fish had dropped through a ventilator into the fireroom and the firemen were heating their shovels to cook a late fish supper...
...overheard the incident sometime later by a member of the fireroom force who stated that they held hot shovels under the ventilator as the fish came down and flapjacked them until nicely broiled. This, I suspect, was an exaggeration...
...Engineering: this class will include only those who apply especially for such a course. The course will cover generally: (1) the organization and administration of the engineer's force aboard ship; (2) general description marine main engines, their operation and maintenance; (3) boilers and fireroom fittings--operation, care and preservation, etc., including main and auxiliary feed systems; (4) auxiliaries--disposition operation and upkeep; (5) water-tight subdivisions, drainage system, etc.; (6) evaporators and distilling plant; (7) electric lighting and power plant...
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