Union Steamship Co.'s 23,000 tons displacement ship "Aorangi" launched on Clyde; power is conservatively distributed on four screws, there being four six-cylinder 27 1/2 in. by 39 in. Fairfield-Sulzer two-cycle Diesel engines of crosshead type, each developing 3250 s.hp. at 127 r.p.m. with piston speed of 825 ft. per min.; accommodates 970 passengers.
First of the big transocean motorliners
Motorship
Motorship ; 9 , n 8
1924
3 pages
2 Figs.
Article (Journal)
English
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