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; Mar Eng and Shipg Rev v 49 n 5 May 1944 p 174-5)


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    Title :

    Canadian-built diesel-electric ferry of 12,000 B.H.P.


    Additional title:

    Shipg Register Shipbldr


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    Publication date :

    1944


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    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


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    13,500 B.H.P. diesel-electric ferry

    Engineering Index Backfile | 1947