Complete description of hull, engines, auxiliary machinery, deck machinery, electric apparatus; passenger accommodations and navigating instruments of largest passenger ship ever built in United States and first large commercial vessel to be propelled by turbo-electric drive; length overall, 601 ft. 3 in.; beam, molded 80 ft.; load draft, 32 ft. 3 in.; gross tonnage, 21,000 tons; shaft horse-power, maximum, 17,000; speed, 18 knots; passenger capacity, 747. (See also - no 1958 May 17 pp 11; Mar. Eng. and Shipg. Age vol. 33, no. 2, Feb. 1928 pp. 71-100, 52 figs; Pac. Mar. Rev., vol. 25, no. 2, Feb. 1928, pp. 57-64, 15 figs.; Shipg. Illustrated, vol. 21, no. 12, Feb. 1928, pp. 15-16, 1 fig.; Mar. News, vol. 14, no. 9, Feb. 1928, pp. 37-38, 3 figs.; Shipbldg. and Shipg. Rec., vol. 31, no. 6, Feb. 9, 1928, pp. 162-164, 6 figs.; Engineer, vol. 144, no. 3765, Mar. 9, 1928, pp. 275-276; Mar. Engr. and Motorship Bldr., vol. 51, no. 607, Mar. 1928, pp. 106-108, 4 figs., and translated description in Bulletin Technique du Bureau Veritas, vol. 10, no. 4, Apr. 1928, pp. 66-67, 1 fig)
The passenger steamship California
Electricity
Electricity ; 42 , n 1960
1928
6 Figs.
Article (Journal)
English
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The passenger steamship California
Engineering Index Backfile | 1928
The passenger steamship California
Engineering Index Backfile | 1928
The passenger steamship California
Engineering Index Backfile | 1928
The passenger steamship California
Engineering Index Backfile | 1928
The passenger steamship California
Engineering Index Backfile | 1928