Describes rudder installed in Hamburg-American twin-screw motorship liner built at Deutscher Werft, Finkenwarder; object of invention is to do away entirely with heavy and expensive steering gears and to replace them by simple form of rudder worked by streamline pressure exerted on rudder by water through which vessel is moving.


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    Title :

    The Flettner rudder on the motor ship Odenwald


    Additional title:

    Engineer


    Published in:

    Engineer ; 135 , n 3521


    Publication date :

    1923


    Remarks:

    3 Figs.


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


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