GAS TURBINE SHIP
BRITISH PLAN FOR NEW TANKER LONDON. An all-gas turbine ship is now being planned by Mr John Lamb, head of the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company’s Marine Research and: Development Department. Mr Lamb successfully installed a gas turbo-alternator in the tanker Auris last year. The vessel was the first merchant ship to be propelled by a gas turbine. Mr Lamb proposes to build a standard tanker of 18,000 tons, which will be powered by two gas turboalternators of 4150 horsepower, and details of the machinery are now being worked out. Mr Lamb says the experiment with the Auris has been very rewarding. In the ship at present being planned there will be scope to realise good thermal efficiency. The efficiency of the Auris set had to be sacrificed to the experiment as a whole, which required a gas turbo-alternator of low power to run in parallel with diesel alternators. It is clear that this sacrifice is bringing in quick returns and the policy now is to go ahead with the construction of an all-gas turbine ship.
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Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26874, 29 October 1952, Page 6
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