Fireman (steam engine)

A fireman, stoker or boilerman is a person who tends the fire for the running of a boiler, heating a building, or powering a steam engine.

"Stoker" remains the colloquial term for a marine engineering rating, despite the decommissioning of the last coal-fired naval vessel many years ago.[when?

[citation needed] In the United States Navy, watertender (abbreviated WT) was a petty officer rating which existed from 1884 to 1948.

In the present day, the position of fireman still exists on the Union Pacific Railroad, but it refers to an engineer in training.

The locomotive type has a screw conveyor (driven by an auxiliary steam engine) which feeds the coal into the firebox.

[citation needed] Vladimir Lenin, disguised as Konstantin Petrovich Ivanov, escaped to Finland in 1917 on train 293 from Udelnaya Station.

During the sinking of the ship, these men disregarded their own safety and stayed below deck to keep the steam-driven electric generators running for the radiotelegraph, lighting, and water pumps.

[10] Simeon T. Webb was the fireman on the Cannonball Express when it was destroyed in the legendary wreck that killed engineer Casey Jones.