Reply to post: Re: Re:Victorian railways had a few exploding boiler incidents

Fixing a printer ended with a dozen fire engines in the car park

ricardian

Re: Re:Victorian railways had a few exploding boiler incidents

And more recently as in the case of the SS France in 2003.

"Boiler No. 23, located on the starboard side of the boiler room, had ruptured. The boiler contained about 20 tons of water operating at a temperature of about 528º F under a pressure of about 60 bar (870 pounds per square inch [psi]). In the normal atmospheric pressure of the aft boiler room (14.7 psi), the pressurized hot water rapidly expanded in volume about 1,260 times into steam"

https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/MAB0703.pdf

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