page_title: Oil burner (engine)
section_title: Oil-fired steamships
hierarchical_section_title: Oil burner (engine) / Oil-fired steamships
context_page_description: An oil burner engine is a steam engine that uses oil as its fuel. The term is usually applied to a locomotive or ship engine that burns oil to heat water, to produce the steam which drives the pistons, or turbines, from which the power is derived.
  This is mechanically very different from diesel engines, which use internal combustion, although they are sometimes colloquially referred to as oil burners.
  An early pioneer of this form of engine was James Holden, of Britain's Great Eastern Railway. In James Holden's system, steam was raised by burning coal before the oil fuel was turned on.
context_section_description: USS Drayton (DD-23)
  USS Terry (DD-25)
  USS Perkins (DD-26)
  USS Sterett (DD-27)
  USS McCall (DD-28)
  USS Warrington (DD-30)
  USS Burrows (DD-29)
  USS Monaghan (DD-32)
  USS Trippe (DD-33)
  USS Walke (DD-34)
  USS Ammen (DD-35)
  USS Jarvis (DD-38)
  USS Henley (DD-39)
  USS Jouett (DD-41)
  USS Jenkins (DD-42)
  USS George Washington (1908)
caption: USS Trippe, an oil-fired steamship
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