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New Details Found on Worthington Pump

Posted by eric.nordgren on March 11, 2010 0 Comments >

The Monitor’s engine room was equipped with two steam powered Worthington pumps for clearing bilges and acting as boiler water feed pumps. Both pumps were recovered from the wrecksite and have been undergoing conservation at The Mariners’ Museum. When they first entered the lab these pumps were covered with a hard, thick calcareous marine crust [...]

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