Available now ... an exhaustive look at the operation and maintenance of the steam ship William C. Daldy. For any steam enthusiast, this Owners manual is packed with operations instructions for everything from the ship's 980 bhp main engines, to the correct stoking of the ship's twin Scotch boilers. The William C. Daldy has a pair of compound triple expansion condensing steam engines — literally the pinnacle of reciprocating steam engines. It was among the last such vessels produced, with Diesel engines slowly overtaking steam for supremacy at sea. Liberally illustrated with both diagrams and photographs, this book is a must for every trainee volunteer aboard the ship, or for the "steam heads" and armchair engineers among us.
