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> all boilers must have a nameplate affixed with a bunch of not really useful information Lest we forget why those nameplates and the standards they reflect ma
by wahern 4y ago
> all boilers must have a nameplate affixed with a bunch of not really useful information
Lest we forget why those nameplates and the standards they reflect matter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultana_(steamboat) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultana_(steamboat)
> Sultana was a commercial side-wheel steamboat which exploded and sank on the Mississippi River on April 27, 1865, killing 1,169 people in what remains the worst maritime disaster in United States history.