Changes and improvements accomplished which contrast Matson Navigation Co's reconverted vessel with prewar vessel; length oa 631 ft 6 5/8 in.; beam molded 79 ft; breadth extreme at B deck 82 ft 1 1/2 in.; depth molded to B deck 61 ft; fitted with two triple expansion Bethlehem turbines of 11,000 shp each, driving shafts through single reduction Falk gears and receiving steam from 12 Babcock and Wilcox watertube boilers. (See also - n 9 Sept 1 1949 p 263-6, n 11 Sept 15 p 323-6, n 12 Sept 22 p 341-4; Soc Naval Architects and Mar Engrs -- Paper n 2 for meeting May 12 1949 51 p; Pac Mar Rev v 46 n 5 May 1949 p 43-61, 76, 112-5, 120)
Reconversion of liner S.S. "lurline,"
Shipbldg Shipg Rec
Shipbuilding and Shipping Record ; 74 , n 13
1949
2 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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Reconversion of liner S.S. "lurline,"
Engineering Index Backfile | 1949
Reconversion of liner S.S. "lurline,"
Engineering Index Backfile | 1949
|Reconversion -- Physical problem
Engineering Index Backfile | 1944
|Luckenbach reconversion completed
Engineering Index Backfile | 1949
Engineering Index Backfile | 1944
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