40-yr old steamboat converted to Diesel electric fire boat, Duwamish, by Commercial Ship Repair, Seattle, Wash; generator units consist of three 8-cyl Cooper-Bessemer Diesel engines developing 950 hp at 750 rpm; direct connected to 610-kw 500-v GE generators; they power four 765-hp, 500-v, GE motors which provide 765 hp at 1045 to 1500 rpm; boat can pump 23,000 gal of water per min. (see also Pac Mar Rev v 47 n 2 Feb 1950 p 78-9)
Seattle's "new fireboat is diesel electric powered
Motorship
Motorship ; 35 , n 1
1950
3 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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