Built at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co, to furnish overseas transportation in safest possible form; length oa 723 ft; beam molded 92 ft; depth molded 45 ft; fitted with two sets of triple expansion turbines driving twin propellers through reduction gearing, steam for turbines being supplied by 6 water tube boilers which burn oil as fuel. (See also Mar News v 26 n 4 Sept 1939 p 22-33)
"America,"
Mar Progress
Marine Progress ; 7 , n 9 ; p 12 + 14 + 16 + 18
1939
Article (Journal)
English
© Metadata Copyright Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.
Engineering Index Backfile | 1940
|DataCite | 1590
|Online Contents | 1998
Online Contents | 1998
Engineering Index Backfile | 1939
|