Repowering and alterations made during renovation of car ferry " Vicking" increased vessel's speed from 12 to 19 mph; 360-ft, 2713-ton Vicking can now carry bigger and heavier cars, because decks were raised and strengthened during repowering process, which included installation of twin-screw, 6000-shp, diesel-electric propulsion plant; this consists of four 1500-hp Electro-Motive 567D-1 diesel engines, driving four EMD D-32G generators and equal number of EMD D-32H propulsion motors to drive propeller shafts.
Ann Arbor repowers Michigan car ferry
Ry Age
Railway Age ; 159 , n 4
1965
2 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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