294-ft. 16-knot vessel with some remarkable features, including largest gyro stabilizer fitted to pleasure vessel; length on waterline, 280 ft.; beam, 38 ft. 3 in.; draft, 16 ft.; cruising radius at 15 knots, 11, 000 mi.; large fuel and freshwater tanks forward and aft of engine room; propelling machinery is of new Bessemer type, comprising two 1500-b.hp. 8-cylinder airless-injection engines, developing their power at 300 r.p.m. (see also Mar. News, vol. 14, no. 10, Mar. 1928, pp. 70, 72 and 74, 3 figs.; Motor Boating, vol. 41, no. 3, Mar. 1928, supp. section; Mar. Eng. and Shipg. Age, vol. 33, no. 5, May 1928, pp. 263-265, 2 figs., and Motorship, vol. 8, no. 2, Feb. 1928, p. 136, 1 fig.)
The largest motor yacht
Brit. Motor Ship
British Motor Ship ; 9 , n 97
1928
3 pages
8 Figs.
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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Engineering Index Backfile | 1928
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