Information on prototype defense vessel, Lt Col. John U.D. Page, which is propelled and steered by two sixbladed vertical axis variable pitch propellers which permit lateral as well as forward and backward movement; anchoring and beaching operations are controlled from forecastle spanning forward end of main deck; hydraulic ram is used to spring bow free of shore; length of craft is 338 ft, and beam 65 ft; two 1100-hp Fairbanks-Morse diesels give speed of over 10 knots.
Cycloid propeller goes into action on army's beach lighter "page"
Rivers Harbors
Rivers and Harbors ; 44 , n 3
1959
Article (Journal)
English
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