Particulars of quadruple screw ice breaking railway car ferry being built by Marine Industries Ltd, of Sorel, Pa, to operate between Port Borden, PEI, and Cape Tormentine, NB, which will carry railway passenger and freight cars, automobiles, buses and passengers; length oa 372 ft 6 in.; breadth molded 61 ft; depth molded 24 ft 9 in.; eight Diesel engines with electric generators capable of producing 12,000 bhp, operate 4 sets of propelling motors. (See also Mar Engr v 67 n 804 July 1944 p 290-3, 300; Motorship v 29 n 7 July 1944 p 598, 627; Engineering v 158 n 4102 Aug 25 1944 p 156-7; Shipg Register and Shipbldr v 27 n 4 Apr 1944 p 24, 40)
Canadian-built diesel-electric ferry of 12,000 B.H.P.
Mar Eng Shipg Rev
Marine Engineering and Shipping Review ; 49 , n 5
1944
2 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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Canadian-built diesel-electric ferry of 12,000 B.H.P.
Engineering Index Backfile | 1944
Canadian-built diesel-electric ferry of 12,000 B.H.P.
Engineering Index Backfile | 1944
Canadian-built diesel-electric ferry of 12,000 B.H.P.
Engineering Index Backfile | 1944
Canadian-built diesel-electric ferry of 12,000 B.H.P.
Engineering Index Backfile | 1944
13,500 B.H.P. diesel-electric ferry
Engineering Index Backfile | 1947