The Engine Room: The engine room contains two 800 horse power horizontal compound condensing engines 20 x 40 inches, with a seven-foot stroke built in 1932 by the vessel's builders, the Marietta Manufacturing Company of Mount Pleasant, WV. The engines drove Lewis' two steel and white oak sidewheels, each 25 feet wide. The pumping engine is a single 1300 horsepower, triple-expansion marine steam engine manufactured in 1931 as engine no. 1507 by the American Shipbuilding Company of Lorain, OH.

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