Shipping Board freighter converted to Diesel drive by Federal Shipbuilding Co.; conversion cost government $1,082,386; principal dimensions of vessel are: length o.a. 411 ft. 9 in., beam molded 55 ft., gross tonnage 621.93, and service speed 12.3 knots; main engine is of Hamilton, M.A.N., double-acting, two-cycle design, constructed by Hooven-Owens-Rentschler Co., Hamilton, O.; cylinders 27 1/2 in. diam. by 47 1/4 in. stroke; engine will develop 4000 hp. at 110 r.p.m. (see also Motorship, vol. 14, no. 8, Aug. 1929, pp. 559-562, 8 figs)
Trials of motorship New Orleans
Mar. Eng. Shipg. Age
Marine Engineering and Shipping Age ; 34 , n 8
1929
5 pages
7 Figs.
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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Trials of motorship New Orleans
Engineering Index Backfile | 1929
Motorship New Orleans and the Oertz Rudder
Engineering Index Backfile | 1929
Trials of the motorship "itape"
Engineering Index Backfile | 1927
Loaded sea trials of the motorship "William Pnn."
Engineering Index Backfile | 1921
Sixth converted shipping board motorship completes her sea trials
Engineering Index Backfile | 1927