New ships ordered from Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co, Kearny, NJ, by Standard Oil Co, NJ, to augment fleet of modern steam turbine driven bulk oil tankers; vessels measure 440 ft bp, 66 1/2 ft beam, 34 ft 6 in. depth molded, and 28 ft draft; to be equipped with De Laval cross-compound turbines with double reduction gears developing 3000 shp at 90 rpm. (See also Mar News v 23 n 9 Feb 1937 p 23-4)
New oil tankers to have double reduction geared turbines
Pac Mar Rev
Pacific Marine Review ; 34 , n 3
1937
3 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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