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Handbook of the steam-engine. Containing all the rules required for the right construction and management of engines of every class, with the easy arithmetical solution of those rules. Constituting a key to the 'Catechism of the steam-engine.' (1874)

Bourne, John · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 471

An illustration from Handbook of the steam-engine. Containing all the rules required for the right construction and management of engines of every class, with the easy arithmetical solution of those rules. Constituting a key to the 'Catechism of the steam-engine.', 1874, leaf 471
c Fairy is 312 tons, 21 feet 1^ inchextreme breadth, and has 74*4 square feet of immersed section at5 feet draught. She is propelled by two oscillating geared en-gines of 42 inches diameter of cylinder and 3 feet stroke, and hasattained a speed of 13*3 knots per hour, exerting 363*8… … BODY PLAX OF H. M. S. BATTLER. feet of immersed section, and is propelled by geared engines of200 nominal horse-power. With 428 indicated horse-power sheattained a speed of lOJmots—a high result, imputable partly toher good form for such speed, and partly to the smoothness ofthe copper…

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