Engine room of a 300 000 ton oil tanker (VLCC) bonus: Boilers & Engine control room

I made a walkaround of the engineroom of a very large oil tanker. This ship has about 300 000 DWT, and at fully loaded its draft is too deep for the Suez channel. They have massive powerful steam cargo pumps, so they need large boilers to power them. Also managed to have a look through the engine control room for you hard core ship nerds.

[davidcarruthers]

Who can not love this ?
Clean, well arraigned and marked. I did my time in the engine rooms on DD's & FF's. 1275 PSI, Super Heated Steam. Twin Pinion Double Reduction Gears. Man the scream of the Westinghouse Main Turbines was awesome. I have always loved machines and equipment . This vid is excellent, thank you for sharing. Working and operating the main spaces with a good team was rewarding . I could spend days exploring this engine room and learning.

[chrisyboy]

1st thing you look @ on any ship is the how clean the engine room will tell you everything you need to know about the crew captain and company your dealing with....Immaculate tells me exactly what I need....congratulations to the ships

[satriawiraguna]

Nice to see clean and tidy engine room like this one, seems ready for welcoming PSC inspector...

[BeachsideHank]

The fireroom of my WWII vintage Navy destroyer never looked this "pretty", 50 years later and occasionally I still have dreams I'm a 19 year old kid back aboard her with shipmates I know for a fact are long dead. It's funny how sea life is indelible, now way too old to go back on the water, dreams are all I have left, thanks for sharing your space.☺

[Adventure-Story]

Very nice light placement in engine room and love the smoke detectors signs on the floor and many many details!

[anderslarsson]

Wao this ER looks brand new, thanks for a great video! Regards from a former 2nd officer at Wallenius PCTC.

[ericerto]

Just absolutely incredible engineering. It's probably spending the propeller at 25 RPM. These things are so complex but yet so simple. You have to be the best at what you do to be out at Sea and keep these things running they need constant maintenance. A car puts on an average of about 10, 000 mi a year these things do that in a month

[jacobrollo]

Im writing this laying in the rack of 4hold port upper tween deck on the 1967 Freighter T.S. Kennedy. WISHING we had an engine room this neat and beautiful.

[grochomarx]

Clean and functional. What a playground for an engineer

[calvinhobbes]

I really enjoy seeing the footage you folks show of your beautiful ships. As a career sailor, I think it would have been an honor to work with folks like you in my younger days .... the material condition of your ship is amazing. Thanks for sharing this vid!! :)

[ssnoc]

Bringing that thing safely from point A to B is one hell of a responsibility

[ShipelectricEngineer]

So nice and clean engine room. And. so high quality of ship building!

[thecrabpulsar]

Would have loved to see how this giant looked on the outside... massive machine!

[RajeshSingh-izuj]

Every single step is very important in onboard.... No compromise with anything. I like the crew member and their team work .

[iceman]

Beautiful spotless Engine spaces.Personal discipline by the crew at its best.

[mohdibrahim]

Very beautiful and clean engine room areas keep it so far.

[illergiuliotti]

Complimenti to the owner, superintend, and crew for good maintenances and clean of whole engine room

[morakskuld]

That engine room is an amazing achievement

[rickrandall]

What strikes me about this video is how LOUD the machinery noise seems to be. Do ship engineers tend to suffer higher rates of hearing loss than people from other occupations?

[Adventure-Story]

04:18 love this colour of Himsen engine!