page_title: Fireman (steam engine)
hierarchical_section_title: Fireman (steam engine)
caption_attribution_description: Photo of a stoker. Steam is raised at the Engineerium in the traditional way. Coal stoked boilers and a lot of hard work. Note also that this is a Lancashire boiler, rather than an earlier Cornish boiler, as can be seen by the frontplate seam being flanged outwards rather than inwards.
context_page_description: A fireman, stoker or watertender is a person whose occupation it is to tend the fire for the running of a boiler, heating a building, or powering a steam engine. Much of the job is hard physical labor, such as shoveling fuel, typically coal, into the boiler's firebox. On steam locomotives the title fireman is usually used, while on steamships and stationary steam engines, such as those driving saw mills, the title is usually stoker. The German word Heizer is equivalent and in Dutch the word stoker is mostly used too. The United States Navy referred to them as watertenders.
context_section_description: A fireman, stoker or watertender is a person whose occupation it is to tend the fire for the running of a boiler, heating a building, or powering a steam engine. Much of the job is hard physical labor, such as shoveling fuel, typically coal, into the boiler's firebox. On steam locomotives the title fireman is usually used, while on steamships and stationary steam engines, such as those driving saw mills, the title is usually stoker (although the British Merchant Navy did use fireman). The German word Heizer is equivalent and in Dutch the word stoker is mostly used too. The United States Navy referred to them as watertenders.
caption: A fireman or stoker, sometimes called a "boilerman"
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