294-ft. 16-knot vessel with some remarkable features, including largest gyro stabilizer fitted to pleasure vessel; length on waterline, 280 ft.; beam, 38 ft. 3 in.; draft, 16 ft.; cruising radius at 15 knots, 11, 000 mi.; large fuel and freshwater tanks forward and aft of engine room; propelling machinery is of new Bessemer type, comprising two 1500-b.hp. 8-cylinder airless-injection engines, developing their power at 300 r.p.m. (See also Brit. Motor Ship, vol. 9, no. 97, Apr. 1928, pp. 34-36, 8 figs.; Mar. News, vol. 14, no. 10, Mar. 1928, pp. 70, 72 and 74, 3 figs.; Mar. Eng. and Shipg. Age, vol. 33, no. 5, May 1928, pp. 263-265, 2 figs., and Motorship, vol. 8, no. 2, Feb. 1928, p. 136, 1 fig.)
The largest motor yacht
Motor Boating
Motor Boating ; 41 , n 3
1928
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Engineering Index Backfile | 1928
Engineering Index Backfile | 1928
Engineering Index Backfile | 1928
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