ALL-ELECTRIC SHIP

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 46, 31 August 1928, Page 9

ALL-ELECTRIC SHIP

[ DIESEL DRIVE FOR DYtfAMQS United Service.' From tfte captain's bridge, one peri sou at the B\yi.tehb.gard operates tho new ulj*pj(?etriq ship Brunswick, of 9000 tons, built b,y the. Scott ghip. building and. Engineering Company, Greenoek, for thg .Atlantic Refining Coinpauy, A successful trial trip Was mode on the Clyde. Four Diesel engines, drive dynamos generating' oleetrigity, which drives motors geared to the propellers. The ship steers automatically, Her performance will be closely watched throughout the world with a view to the equipment of future passenger yessels on the Diesel electric principle. The all-'oleetrio ship Brunswick is the first to bo built in Britain/ but the system (Ingerßoll-Han,d) has beeu.fairly ! widely applied in America, particularly in the United Stattss Navy, where tho battleships Maryland, Colorado, atid West Virginia arp all equipped with electric drive, though with steam turbines, not Diesel engines'as tho; prime mover. Tho Brunswick is of 12,500 tons, and is equipped with four gets of engines, built by thq Carels Opnipany, of Bel? giuin, with six cylinders each, driving generators at 825 r.p,to. Tliq speed o£ the vessel is H knofg,