Built by American Ship Building Co, for Inland Steel Co, ship is largest ever launched on Great Lakes; length oa 678 ft; beam 70 ft; max summer draft 25 ft 6 in.; gross tonnage, estimated 11,800 long tons; powered by 7000-hp compound Westinghouse steam turbine driving shaft through double reduction gears; steam supplied by oil fired watertube steam generators.
Launching steamship wilfred sykes
Mar Eng Shipg Rev
Marine Engineering and Shipping Review ; 54 , n 9
1949
3 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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