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Tuesday 29 November 2016

British firm Yarrow&Co overrun with orders for boilers according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1901-1902 no. 10

An item reported that the firm Yarrow&Co., London, England was overrun with boiler orders for large ships for the British, Russian and Italian navies. Further more were several torpedo boats of which the boilers were worn out to be fitted out with Yarrow boilers instead of the traditional locomotive boilers. If lacking sufficient height were the pipes decreased although mostly with a larger diameter.