Marine Engines
In 1811 the firm made a Trevithick-pattern high-pressure steam engine for John Wright, a Quaker of Yarmouth. The engine was fitted to the paddle steamer l'Actif, running out of Yarmouth. The ship was a captured privateer that had been purchased from the government. Paddle wheels were fitted to it and driven by the new engine. The ship was renamed “Experiment” and the engine was very successful, eventually being transferred to another boat, “The Courier”.
In 1816 Francis B. Ogden, the United States Consul in Liverpool received two large twin-cylinder marine steam engines from Murray’s firm. Ogden then patented the design as his own in America. It was widely copied there and used to propel the Mississippi paddle steamers.
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