Cargo passenger steamships Polk, Monroe, VanBuren and Jefferson are C-3 type, Buchanan and Harding are Victorys, and Jackson, Hayes and Adams will be P2-S1-DN1-V2000; length oa 536 ft; breadth 73 ft; draft 29 1/2 ft; propeller shaft is turned through double reduction gearing by cross compound steam turbine designed to deliver 12,500 shp at 92 rpm of propeller shaft when fed with steam of 600 psi gage and 840 F.
American president lines' round-the-world ships
Pac Mar Rev
Pacific Marine Review ; 46 , n 8
1949
10 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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