First large passenger ship with trunk-piston airless-injection pressure-charged machinery; launched from Harland and Wolff's East Yard at Belfast for Pacific Steam Navigation Co.; engines are of 4-cycle single-acting type; output of 22,000 s.hp. can be developed; exhausts from propelling engines are taken to two\ill\ Clarkson Silencer boilers, which may, alternatively, be oil-fired, while exhaust gases from two of auxiliary engines are also passed through similar boiler before delivery to funnel; length b.p. 550 ft.; molded beam 76 ft.; service speed 19 knots.
The 17,000-ton liner "Reina del Pacifico"
Brit. Motor Ship
British Motor Ship ; 11 , n 128
1930
2 pages
2 Figs.
Article (Journal)
English
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Engineering Index Backfile | 1931
Engineering Index Backfile | 1931
Engineering Index Backfile | 1931
Engineering Index Backfile | 1931
Engineering Index Backfile | 1931