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Molony consulted with experts, who say the marks were likely made from a large conflagration that broke out in a boiler ...

Built in 1953, the Badger was the last and largest – along with its sister ship the S.S. Spartan – coal-fired, steam engine ...

President Donald Trump's plan to revive U.S. shipbuilding using massive fees on China-linked ship visits to American ports is ...

and "Destruction of the War Ship Maine Was the Work of an Enemy ... involving a spontaneous combustion fire in the coal bunker. Some conspiracy theorists have even suggested that sensational ...

His team of experts found that the ship's demise was self- inflicted--likely the result of a coal bunker fire. There are those, however, who still maintain that an external blast was to blame.

and worked experimentally for several years in the invention and perfecting of a trimming mechanism for trimming coal in bunkers for ship use, and also on the development of a special elevator ...