Design details and results of power trials of North Dakota, first of four 19,203 deadweight ton oil tankers built at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co for Texas Co; length oa 565 ft, breadth molded 75 ft, loaded sea speed 18 knots; single propeller is powered by Newport News Shipbuilding turbine and De Laval reduction gear unit with maximum continuous rating of 15,000 shp at 100 rpm; steam is produced by two Combustion Engineering boilers; plans. (see also Shipbldg and Shipg Rec v 83 n 12 Mar 25 1954 p 377-80)


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    Title :

    Texas company develops new class of coastwise tanker


    Additional title:

    Mar Eng


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1953


    Size :

    15 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English





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