Sep. 14th.
5 killed, 20 injured.
Fig. 33.
One of two. Plain Cylinder, with plates arranged lengthways, 17 years old, 27ft. long, 6ft. diameter, 3/8 inch plates, 30lbs. pressure, mechanically fired. It had just been extensively repaired over the fire, but it gave way at the back end, where a plate had been put in some time before, and it is supposed that a seam rip or injury to the old plate, not visible outside or in, was then set up, which was perhaps increased by the strain of late repairs and gave way as soon as steam was again raised to working pressure. See [No. 55] this year and many others in past years of similar construction.
No.42. Nottingham. ([Fig. 34.])
September 15th.
1 killed.
Fig. 34.