Vessel "Exporter" building at Fore River plant of Shipbuilding division of Bethlehem Steel Co; length oa 475 ft 1 in.; beam molded 66 ft; depth molded to shelter deck 42 ft 3 in.; main propulsion machinery consists of 8000-shp Bethleham cross compound impulse reaction turbine, driving single 4-blade propeller at 96 revolutions through Falk double reduction gears; at 100 rpm machinery develops 8800 shp.
Exporter class cargo ships
Mar Eng Shipg Rec
Marine Engineering and Shipping Record ; 44 , n 12
1939
4 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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