Single-screw steamship built on Isherwood system; length overall, 445 ft.; beam, molded. 60 ft.; steam is supplied at 350 lb.; superheated to 200 deg. fahr. by 4 oil-burning Babcock and Wilcox water-tube boilers; propulsion is by single screw driven by one set of compound turbines through double-reduction gears; normal rated capacity of main unit is 7100 s.hp. at propeller speed of 91 r.p.m. (See also Mar. Eng. and Shipg. Age vol. 33, no. 3, Mar. 1928 pp. 135-145, 25 figs; Pac. Mar. Rev., vol. 25, no. 4, Apr. 1928, pp. 155-158, 9 figs.; Mar. News, vol. 14, no. 9, Feb. 1928, p. 42, 1 fig.; Shipg. Illustrated, vol. 21, no. 12, Feb. 1928, pp. 7-8; Naut. Gaz., vol. 114, no. 4, Jan. 1928, pp. 94 and 116, 1 fig., and World Ports, vol. 16, no. 8, June 1928, pp. 675-681, 1 fig)
Passenger steamship dixie
Port New York
Port of New York ; 7 , n 2
1928
2 pages
1 Fig.
Article (Journal)
English
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Engineering Index Backfile | 1928
Engineering Index Backfile | 1928
Engineering Index Backfile | 1928
Engineering Index Backfile | 1928
Engineering Index Backfile | 1928