engine order telegraph

He ran to the engine order telegraph and moved it to reverse one-third.

Harrison turned the engine order telegraph, a four-inch dial on his console.

The steering wheel or helm, compass, engine order telegraph, and chart table are located here.

An examination revealed that the cargo section was almost totally destroyed by the explosion, and the engine order telegraph still registering "full ahead".

As the JO acknowledged the transmission, Carter turned to the men at the helm and engine order telegraph.

With the precision of his training, he had acknowledged the engine order telegraph backup to the captain's orders and was already nearing 50 percent steam flow.

In line with the "classical nautical" design of the ships and the universe in general, the speed control is designed to look like an engine order telegraph.

Engine commands would be relayed to the engineer in the engine room by an engine order telegraph, which displayed the captain's orders on a dial.

Aside from the engine order telegraphs, she also had docking order telegraphs in the wings, the only Mersey ferryboat to ever have them.

Designed to shield just enough personnel and devices for navigation during battles, its interior was cramped and basic, with little more than engine order telegraphs, speaking tubes or telephones, and perhaps a steering wheel.

The steam valves of the engine are controlled by mechanical linkages which extend up to levers mounted either side of the engine order telegraph, just aft of the pilot wheel in the pilot house above.

Throttleman--Nuclear-trained enlisted watch stander who monitors the steam plant at the Steam Plant Control Panel and positions the throttle based on the speed orders of the control room (which are transmitted by the engine order telegraph).

An engine order telegraph or E.O.T., often also chadburn, is a communications device used on a ship (or submarine) for the pilot on the bridge to order engineers in the engine room to power the vessel at a certain desired speed.

The OOD could have accomplished the same thing by ordering flank on the engine order telegraph, a "jump bell," but that method, which was faster than ordering maneuvering to shift the coolant pumps, was saved for when speed was of die essence ... as in torpedo evasion.