A 19th Century Dutch built six triple compound steam engine restored

Nowadays proudly in the school

In 1875 was at Flushing, Netherlands a shipyard annex machine and boiler plant founded using the area former occupied by the Royal Dutch Navy as shipyard. The intention was to built ships included engines and boilers or to deliver at least engines and boilers for ships elsewhere built. Until the 4th quarter of the 20th century produced this shipyard Kon.Mij. De Schelde her boilers and engines. Since the 1970’s is she the main shipyard of warships for the Royal Dutch Navy although there also warships built for other countries like Morocco and Indonesia.

The shipyard was for her technical knowledge and innovations oriented on the United Kingdom. In fact was the main engineer of the machine boiler plant the Scottish born engineer William Hamilton Martin (born Glasgow, Scotland 1850-died at Rotterdam, Netherlands in 1917 but buried at Vlissingen)

On 2 September 1887 received the shipyard an order to built a steam engine for the Dutch inland river vessel Thor VI. The result was an anique six triple engine. After she was no longer used, she returned to the shipyard until she was handed over to Scalda, Vlissingen, Netherlands in quite worse condition. However some experienced and ethusiastic teachers managed with the help of their students (mainly studying for naval engineers) to restore her as new!