Shambler's Wharf, Arctic Road, Cowes - pump
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Shambler's Wharf, Arctic Road, Cowes - pump
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 7 Jun 1990
This shipyard had a beam engine driving a large slipway winch. It also had this small horizontal duplex non-rotative pump of the type pioneered by Worthington in the USA. I believe that like the beam engine this could still be worked by compressed air for draining sumps. The steam cylinders are on the right and the pump cylinders on the left.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.751389
Longitude
-1.294872