7,127 IHP . Production and use Reed water tube boilers were a "speciality" of the engine works at Palmers, which was capable of producing one "heavy marine boiler" a week, besides "a large number of water tube boilers". While equipment designed by Reed was used in merchant ships, for example the SS Hanoi built in Sunderland in 1893 for the French mail service between Haiphong in Vietnam and Hong Kong in China, about 170 of his water tube boilers were used in ships of the Royal Navy. These included cruisers, destroyers and gunboats, besides torpedo boat destroyers, of which Palmers alone built 16. Among these was Spiteful, in which the boilers were later adapted to burn fuel oil. Reed boilers were also installed in ships ordered by the Admiralty from other shipbuilders, for example on the River Clyde in Scotland. Two torpedo boat destroyers built by Hanna, Donald & Wilson of Paisley, and , both launched in 1895, were fitted with four Reed boilers each by order of the Admiralty and at a cost of £14,200, after it rejected the locomotive boilers installed by their builders. Similarly , a torpedo gunboat built by the Barrow Shipbuilding Company of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, in 1892, had her boilers replaced with Reed boilers in 1902. Production of the Reed water tube boiler ceased in 1905. See also Three-drum boiler References Footnotes Notes Bibliography Water-tube boilers Marine boilers