Amidships on the upper deck was the dredging platform itself, flanked by zinc specimen boxes and with a small steam donkey engine to one side to pull up the dredge with its precious cargo of samples.
Astern of the engine-room area is a short gap where the ship broke her back, then you reach the propshaft, suspended above the seabed by the remains of the donkey engine.
They were engine-room hands: bunkermen who stuffed coal into the boilers; donkeywallahs who tended the donkey engines; they greased the machinery and riddled the furnaces.
These systems, and many other aspects of log transport, were governed by steam-powered ‘donkey engines.’
I take a few photos and walk the long trail back to the gate by the firehouse, where a huge steam donkey engine is displayed.
Definition of donkey engine in US English:
donkey engine
nounˈdäNGkē
A small or auxiliary engine, especially on a ship.
Example sentencesExamples
They were engine-room hands: bunkermen who stuffed coal into the boilers; donkeywallahs who tended the donkey engines; they greased the machinery and riddled the furnaces.
Amidships on the upper deck was the dredging platform itself, flanked by zinc specimen boxes and with a small steam donkey engine to one side to pull up the dredge with its precious cargo of samples.
These systems, and many other aspects of log transport, were governed by steam-powered ‘donkey engines.’
I take a few photos and walk the long trail back to the gate by the firehouse, where a huge steam donkey engine is displayed.
Astern of the engine-room area is a short gap where the ship broke her back, then you reach the propshaft, suspended above the seabed by the remains of the donkey engine.