The job of shoveling coal was backbreaking, dirty, repetitive, monotonous, unhealthy.
The coal workers on Titanic were called "stokers" or firemen" and they shoveled coal into furnaces. The piles were evened out for a good balance of the ship by "trimmers".
Stokers or boiler tenders, they tend the boilers, not the engines which run on steam.
Stokers add coal into the fireboxes of steam boilers. They may either be humans with shovels or mechanical systems with conveyor belts.
Iron ore and coal
Cleveland Stokers was created in 1967.
The 'black gang', as they were known, consisted of 175 firemen plus more than 75 trimmers.
Titanic's propulsion was steam. Stokers, or firemen, shoveled coal into furnaces, superheating the water which made steam to turn the propellers. Oil wasn't used until after the Great World War.
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Theodore Sprang Spicer has written: 'The selection and design of refractory ignition arches for single retort stokers' -- subject(s): Design and construction, Furnaces, Mechanical Stokers, Stokers, Mechanical
Titanic's propulsion was steam. Stokers, or firemen, shoveled coal into furnaces, superheating the water which made steam to turn the propellers. Oil wasn't used until after the Great World War.
During the nineteenth century, cast iron ranges that burned coal or wood were developed, but food still had to be monitored constantly because these heat sources were unpredictable
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