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 Soc Naval Architects and Mar Engrs -- Paper n 2 for meeting May 12 1949 51 p; Shipbldg and Shipg Rec v 74 n 9, 11, 12, 13, Sept 1 1949 p 263-6, Sept 15 p 323-6, Sept 22 p 341-4, Sept 29 p 377-8)
Reconversion of liner S.S. "lurline,"
Pac Mar Rev
Pacific Marine Review ; 46 , n 5
1949
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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