Steel, double ended, ice breaking automobile ferry, with twin screws at each end strengthened for ice, being built for Michigan State Highway Dept by Great Lakes Engineering Works; length oa 360 ft; beam molded 73 ft 6 in.; depth to spar deck 43 ft 4 in.; propelled by four Nordberg, 8-cyl, 2-cycle, port scavenging, solid injection, direct reversible, 2360-bhp Diesel engines; each engine drives single propeller through electric coupling; vessel carries 133 automobiles and 650 passengers. (See also Mar Eng and Shipg Rev v 55 n 7 July 1950 p 68-71; Motorship v 35 n 6 June 1950 p 18-22)
Ice-breaking ferry for State of Michigan
Naut Gaz
Nautical Gazette ; 144 , n 8
1950
4 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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