- This is a site with the steamer ELFDALEN at lake Siljan in SWEDEN
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- ELFDALEN was buildt in l888 at Ljusne mechanical workshop for towing timber across the lake Siljan.Length 70 feet. Beam 16 feet. Deplacement 60 reg.tons.The machinery is a 110 ihp compoundengine with a jetcondensor and fed from a scottish steam boiler.The steamer burnt on her delivery voyage 0,16 cubicfeet wood/ihp.She was also approved for passengertrafic.The price, together with her sistership ORSA in 1888, was 69 500 SEK. ( $ 8 700)The buyer was Dalelfarnes Flottningsförening. (The Timber Floating Association of the Dalecarlia River)The timber floating was finished in 1970.ELFDALEN was first sold in 1966 to a privat person and then in 1969 to Per Hilding who owned her until 1980 when she was sold to Olle Nordesjö.
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- ELFDALEN was sold in 2005 to Jan-Erik Gullback in Leksand.
- SDZL is ELFDALENs signal in the Swedish register of shipping.
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More details about the steamers on the lake Siljan and in the rest of Dalecarlia can be read in the book PÅ SJÖ OCH ÄLV - Ångbåtstrafiken i Dalarna written by TARRAS BLOM, produced by Dalarnas fornminnes- och hembygdsförbund, Dalarnas museum in Falun 1972.
- ELFDALEN is recently purified and painted under her waterline, and some sheet has been changed. New pistonrods has been mounted, The crankshaft has also been directed. Not have been used for three years she was under steam on "The day of Steamers" in Leksand 1999.
- The steam boiler was retubed before the summer of 1984, and approved for 100 lb/sq.inch.
