Discussion of Tornado transverse thrustor and Tornado drive, also suitable for ferries, supply ships, and other special ships, developed by Orenstein-Koppel und Luebecker Maschinenbau Aktiengesellschaft; thrustor consists mainly of channel, extending from one side of ship to other, arranged in forebody of vessel below waterline; pump generates strong water current transverse to direction of course which creates strong transverse thrust at fore body, thus, assisting action of conventional steering gear; arrangements for different dredgers are explained; photographs and diagrams.
Transverse thrustors and manoeuvring aids in self-propelled floating dredgers
World Dredging Conf -- Proc
Proceeding of the WODCON ; 1967 Bow thrusters
1967
15 pages
Conference paper
English
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