crew members kept her steaming along by shoveling coal into her boilers. Now, some of the ship’s 112-year-old fuel is hitting the auction block. Lay’s Auctioneers is offering up the coal ...
Its five 180-foot-high (54.9-meter-high) boilers are gulping 25 tons (22.7 metric tons) of coal each minute, sending thousand-degree steam blasting through turbines that churn out more than 3,000 ...
More than a century after the Titanic struck an iceberg and sank in 1912, some of the ship’s coal is now up for sale. The Titanic’s crew kept the massive ship moving by shoveling coal into its ...
Now, one of those pieces of history is headed to auction—a hunk of coal originally intended as fuel for the 882-foot-long vessel’s boilers. Along with over 8,000 additional items either ...
Both India and China have stated quite plainly that they will not be following the example of the UK and shutting down any coal power plants in the observable future. Coal power provides the cheap ...