When they had disconnected the punctured steam piping they discovered more damage than they had first suspected.
Shell after shell tore into Carondelet's stern, scrambling her steam piping and disabling her steering gear.
The safeguards were there to prevent excessive level swell, which might result in carry-over of water into the steam piping.
In those two, seawa-ter leaking through the broken engine room piping caused such an up angle that water filled the steam piping.
The steam piping is directed through the flue gas path in the boiler furnace.
Tubes inside the boilers were visible; salt crystals hung from them - the steam piping, the fresh-water piping, and the gauges.
In this case, large pieces of steam piping or other large steel boiler components may need to be replaced.
Huddleston says 23 locomotives were equipped with steam piping for heating passenger trains.
The station was out of service for six months while all the steam piping was replaced.
The bang is created when some of the steam condenses into water in a horizontal section of the steam piping.