Sentence examples for boiler explosion from inspiring English sources

"But these boilers have not been active for many years," he said, adding: "This certainly was not a boiler explosion".

As hundreds of workers scrambled to escape the flaming factory after a boiler explosion, they found the main sliding door — 30 feet high, big enough for a truckload of cotton — firmly locked.

A boiler explosion that killed eight crew members on a passenger ship was probably caused by Norwegian Cruise Line's improper operation, maintenance and inspection of the steam chamber, federal investigators have said.

Mr. Calvo said he recently spent hours on the phone on behalf of a prospective buyer in an eight-unit building in Brooklyn, pleading with a major bank to ease off on its demand that the building be insured for a replacement cost of up to $2 million in the event of a boiler explosion.

On 17 January, a boiler explosion aboard Delaware killed eight men and badly scalded another.

In 1893 the Annie Faxon suffered a boiler explosion and sank on the Snake below Lewiston.

Steam engines were introduced fairly early, but occasional boiler explosions provoked attempts to eliminate locomotives in built-up areas, which the railroad successfully resisted for years.

Once a week she has a mandate to cover whatever she wants: theatre, politics, restaurant openings, the suffragettes, boiler explosions, the horrors of the war.

Then various kinds of confined water vapour explosions are discussed, including water boiler explosions, water vapour BLEVEs, and water vapour explosions in the paper industry.

Evans also used the book to justify the safety of high-pressure steam engines if properly constructed, despite the fact that by this time Evans himself had experienced several boiler explosions in his workshop.

As the engines are now known to have stayed in place along with most of the boilers, the "great noise" heard by witnesses and the momentary settling of the stern were presumably caused by the break-up of the ship rather than the loosening of her fittings or boiler explosions.