Bow propeller driven by 3300-shp electric motor creates wave ahead of vessel that helps break ice; "V" in stern simplifies pushing; watertight bulkheads separate engine rooms so flooding can effect only one at time; hull construction; propulsion power is obtained from six 1375-kw, 810-rpm, 900-v, d-c generators driven by Fairbanks-Morse Diesel engines.
Coast guard ice-breaking vessels
Mar Eng Shipg Rev
Marine Engineering and Shipping Review ; 49 , n 12
1944
3 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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