Four Diesel electric cutters of special design permits their use as ice breakers; two building at Defoe Boat Works, Bay City, Mich, and two at Gulfport Boiler Works, Port Arthur, Tex; length 110 ft; beam 26 ft 5 in.; draft 10 ft 6 in.; propelled by two General Motors Vee-type, 600-hp Diesel engines each driving 400-kw generator and 15-kw exciter. See also Engineering Index 1938 p 258.


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    Title :

    Coast guard completing harbor cutters


    Additional title:

    Motorship


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1939


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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