Vessel for Peninsular and Occidental Steamship Co. launched at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co.; length o.a., 387 ft. 8 in.; beam molded, 36 ft. 6 in.; depth molded to promenade deck, 36 ft. 6 in.; 8500-s.hp. turbine propelling equipment will give vessel speed of 20 knots; machinery consists of two sets of cross-compound geared turbines and four oil-burning B. and W. boilers operating under forced draft with 250 lb. working pressure; launching data. (See also - v 17 no. 11, Apr. 1931, p. 79; Mar. Rev., vol. 61, no. 4, Apr. 1931 p. 67, 1 fig; Mar. Eng. and Shipg. Age, vol. 36, nos. 4 and 6, Apr. 1931, pp. 163-164 and June, pp. 256-264 and 267, 22 figs.; and Mar. Rev., vol. 61, no. 6, June 1931, pp. 21-27, 11 figs)
Launch S. S. Florida at Newport news
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Marine News ; 18 , n 2
1931
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