Boilers

Coal vs OIL 

Both types were rivet construction

1914 - July 1925

Nov 1926 - Today
Babcock & Wilcox Bureau Express Battleship

Qty

PSI

Superheated

Fuel

Boiler Rooms

Tubes (per boiler)

14

295

Yes - 8 (3 - 4, 9 - 14)

Coal/Oil a

4

 

6

295

Yes all 6 (removed in 1931)

Oil

3
   total

 

 892

3,454 (with superheat)
2,914 (without superheat) 
   size (od inches)

2" - 863

4" - 29

1" - 2586 (with superheat) 
     - 2740 (without superheat)

1 3/8" - 174

superheat - 1", 780

Water capacity (gallons) 3,600 (full)

1,800 (steaming level)

A - Oil was used with coal burning at high speed. During the crossing from New York to Scapa Flow of 31 Jan to 11 Feb 1918, TEXAS burned 17 tons of fuel oil in conjunction with the 1697 tons of coal, during the 3,372 nautical mile crossing.