Built by Drammen Slip and Verksted for Torvald Klaveness, Balao is for transport of bananas and other fruit or frozen cargo; refrigerating plant includes Freon 12 brine installation of Stal design; length oa 276 ft 11 in., length bp 260 ft, breadth molded 42 ft 3 in.; propelled by Sulzer 2-stroke single acting unit developing 2500 bhp at 150 rpm; about 25 tons of aluminum alloy used in superstructure.


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    Title :

    Fruit-carrying ship with machinery aft


    Additional title:

    Brit Motor Ship


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1953


    Size :

    2 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


    Fast fruit-carrying ship

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