US Coast and Geodetic survey vessel built by Lake Washington Shipyards, Houghton, Wash; propelling machinery consists of steam turbines operating propeller through single case, double reduction gear. Similar descriptions indexed in Engineering Index 1939 p 1130, from various sources.
Survey ship explorer
Mar Eng Shipg Rev
Marine Engineering and Shipping Review ; 45 , n 6
1940
9 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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