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.


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    Title :

    Transverse thrustors and manoeuvring aids in self-propelled floating dredgers


    Additional title:

    World Dredging Conf -- Proc


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Proceeding of the WODCON ; 1967 Bow thrusters



    Publication date :

    1967


    Size :

    15 pages


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


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