NAVPERS 10813-B is a U.S. Navy training manual covering the operation and maintenance of all major engineering plant machinery. The manual addresses boilers, turbines, reduction gears, piping systems, pumps, heat exchangers, distilling plants, refrigeration and air conditioning equipment, air compressors, internal combustion engines, and procedures for engineering casualty control — spanning 17 chapters and 508 numbered pages.
To see the equipment in Chapters 1–4 as it actually looked in service, view our photo gallery of boiler and fireroom controls from a 600 psi steam plant — the firing-control station, steam gauges, soot blower plate, and oil burner fronts, identified by a former U.S. Navy boiler room sailor.