TURBINES FOR THE QUEEN MARY .-Ad justing the blades of one of the modern geared turbines which will drive the Queen Mary and give her a reserve of speed almost certainly superior to that of the turbo-electrically-driven Normandie, now nearirig completion at St. Nazaire, France. Tank model tests are said to have shown that the British ship will be capable of steaming at 34 knots in a moderate sea—a performance, if achieved, that would ensure her capturing the speed record of the North Atlantic.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 104, 4 May 1935, Page 33
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84TURBINES FOR THE QUEEN MARY .-Ad justing the blades of one of the modern geared turbines which will drive the Queen Mary and give her a reserve of speed almost certainly superior to that of the turbo-electrically-driven Normandie, now nearirig completion at St. Nazaire, France. Tank model tests are said to have shown that the British ship will be capable of steaming at 34 knots in a moderate sea—a performance, if achieved, that would ensure her capturing the speed record of the North Atlantic. Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 104, 4 May 1935, Page 33
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