Description of new turbine-electric steel car ferry City of Saginaw 31, launched at plant of Manitowoc Shipbuilding Corp., Manitowoc, Wis.; ferry is to be propelled by electric motors directly connected to propellers; current for electric motors generated by steam turbine sets receiving steam from watertube boilers; length o.a. 381 ft. 6 in.; capacity to handle 28 to 30 modern 42-ft. 80-ton freight cars; steam supplied by four boilers of Babcock and Wilcox watertube type.
Turbo-electric carferry launched for great lakes service
Mar. Rev
Marine Review ; 59 , n 9 ; p 34-35
1929
2 pages
3 Figs.
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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