SWZ Maritime’s July/August issue features a historic article about Gusto’s first diesel engine. Although this engine was very innovative, it did not become a success. With this news post you will find a range of extras concerning this diesel engine.
Gusto’s first diesel engine was installed on board the Ingeborg. It was a Direct reversible two-stroke diesel engine with innovative features such as the fact that the cylinder and cylinder head formed a one piece casting.
Innovative, Yet Unsuccessful
Innovative features, however, did not make the engine successful. Even during trials the engine continued to falter and after its first journey the vessel eventually stranded on the beach of Scheveningen, the Netherlands, in 1913. Eventually the ship changed owners and names several times before it sank in 1915 as Goodwin.
Ingeborg and Gusto Engine Extras
SWZ Maritime’s July/August issue discusses the engine and the Ingeborg in detail. Below some extras we were unable to include in the article. The extras were supplied by the article’s authors Bart Boon and Jan Vegter.
- Ingeborg/Gusto diesel engine newspaper clippings: This pdf contains a collection of newspaper clippings (in Dutch, English and German) on the Ingeborg and Gusto engine from the early twentieth century. Most were found at the National Library of the Netherlands.
- The 1913 ruling of the Maritime Court of the Netherlands (Raad voor de Scheepvaart) on the stranding of the Ingeborg (in Dutch).
- An article from Motor Ship and Motor Boat on the Gusto engine published in 1913.
- The preface and a chapter from the book Marine and Stationary Diesel Engines by A.H. Goldingham, published in 1915, featuring the Gusto diesel engine.
- An extract from the book Diesel Engines for Land and Marine Work by A.P. Chalkley, published in 1916, also about the Gusto diesel engines.
- Dutch article “De eerste reis van de Ingeborg” by F.R. Loomeijer, published in 1986 in Spiegel der Zeilvaart.
The authors have tried to get permission to publish these items (for the pieces less than 100 years old), but were unable to trace some of the current copyright owners. If you feel something was unrightfully published, please let us know and we will remove it.
SWZ Maritime 7/8 2013 appears 23 August. Not yet a subscriber? Please visit our subscriptions page.
Picture: The Ingeborg stranded at Scheveningen (collection R. Martens/F.R. Loomeijer/Spiegel der Zeevaart)
