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Stern View of Screws.




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Stern view of Propellers Boiler room Engine room Forward Shell room Boiler Room & Engine Room Cell Snider Magazine Capstan Engine Q.-F. Gun Magazine.

The five boilers (4 boilers after 1883) powered the 2 engines whose power was transfered by 2 shafts to the twin propellers. mouseover on main image & click

"The Cerberus is propelled by twin screws, so that she can turn on her own length, and the screws are fitted with Maudslay's Shifting blades."

The Australasian Sketcher, July 11 1874
The rudder & screws were well protected by the overhanging stern.

mouseover on main image & click 6 mouseovers (each blade on starboard screw, rudder & port screw.)