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There are also shortages in the engine room branch.
Yorkshire, and the north more generally, was thus given its standard place within both internal and external representations as a site of hard work, the nation's engine room.
The fire started in the engine room, and it quickly proved that the insulation between an oil heater that just had been installed and the woodwork was not sufficiently effective.
Water poured into the engine room and all men were ordered on deck.
The bolts that fastened the boiler armature to the deck loosened and water poured into the engine room.
Water flowed into the engine room after the bolts that fastened the boiler armature to the deck loosened.
The men in the engine room escaped through the engineer's cabin.
The fire so seriously damaged both the engine and the engine room that repairs had to be carried out before the voyage could continue.
