Excalibur, one of three steel hulled tuna clippers being built for operation by West Coast fishing interests; length 121 ft; width 28 ft; depth 13 ft 3 in.; capacity for 224 tons of frozen fish; General Motors Model 12-567 Diesel developing 900 hp at 740 rpm furnishes propulsion power through Falk marine reversing and reduction gear with ratio of 2 1/2 to 1 to 7-ft 4-blade manganese bronze propeller.


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    Title :

    Gulf coast shipyard builds tuna clippers


    Additional title:

    Motorship


    Published in:

    Motorship ; 34 , n 11


    Publication date :

    1949


    Size :

    2 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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