Lancashire, used for evaporation only, 24ft. 6in. long, 8ft. diameter, 3/8 inch plates, and usually worked with little or no pressure.
The boiler was very old and much patched, and incapable of bearing the 15 lbs. pressure which was temporarily put upon it.
No.15. Scotland.
April 18th.
none injured.
Plain cylinder, said to have exploded from shortness of water, but no particulars have been obtained.
No.16. Cornwall. ([Fig. 14.])
April 18th.
1 killed, 1 injured.
