The History of North Atlantic steam navigation with some account of early ships and shipowners (1896)
Fry, Henry · New York : C. Scribner's sons · leaf 195
great advantages olwhich have been pointed cut in a previous chapter. The bracketsused to support the ends of the screw-shafts were dispensed with,another novelty, the shafts being carried out in what are really 174 THE HISTOR y OF NOR TH A TLANTIC STEAM NA VIGA TION. parts of the hull in the run… … in diameter respectively, the engines working up to 16,000 H.P.indicated. According to the requirements of the Admiralty, bothengines and boilers are placed below the water-line to protectthem from the shots of an enemy, and the great strength of the hullsreduces the vibration to a minimum. Their…
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