The shipbuilding industry; its history, practice, science and finance (1905)
Pollock, David H · London : Methuen · leaf 166
be utilised, since the limits of draught for ocean-goingsteamers are fixed by practical considerations, triple-screws may become necessary to efficiency, Thatpoint, in Sir Williams judgment, had then beenreached, and the use of turbine engines with higherrates of revolution will also render… … STRUCTURE AND TYPES OF SHIPS 139 screws, are even now quite the approved means ofpropelling high-speed river and channel steamers,and they are presently being introduced on such astupendous scale in individual cases of ocean-goingsteamers of the largest and swiftest class that thereseems no doubt…
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