There are two boiler rooms and two engine rooms on HMS Belfast, to make it twice as hard for enemy action to disable the ship. Mr Monkey watched a short video that explained that each boiler room had two boilers, and that each boiler burned Furnace Fuel Oil to heat water into super heated steam with a pressure of 350 pounds per square inch. When Mr Monkey scampered up and down various sets of ladders he couldn't really work out which bit was which, largely because almost everything had been painted the same colour. He was happy to look at all the tubes and dials and little wheels, even if he wasn't sure exactly what each one did.
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