POWERFUL MOTOR WARSHIP

Evening Star, Issue 21218, 27 September 1932, Page 10

POWERFUL MOTOR WARSHIP

BREMSE COMPLETED IN GERMANY Whilst dramatic events were happening in Germany in other directions a notable occurrence in the naval sphere is to be recorded in the completion in June of the highest powered motor war vessel that has been constructed, a ship which is also remarkable as being equipped with Diesel machinery second only in power to the passenger liner .Augustus (says the ‘Motor Ship’). She is the Bremse, designed for and described as a ship to be employed in the German navy on gunnery school duties, but it would seem that she could aho be utilised as a mine layer. The Bremse was built at the Bremerbaven yard, and was launched in January, 1931. She is 318.4 ft long with a beam of 31ft 2in and, a draught of 9ft bin. The displacement is 1,225 tons, and she carries a complement of 112, The armament comprises four 4.1 in gnus and four anti-aircraft onepounders. Some details of the tests of one of the engines have been published. There are eight engines, each rated at 3,250 h.h.p., thus giving a total power of 20.000 s.h.p. They are of the M.A.N. double-act-ing two-stroke type built at Augsburg; they run at COO r.p.m., and are arranged in groups of four, each group driving a single shaft through Vulcan gearing, allowing a propeller speed of 400 r.p.m. The engines have eight cylinders 300 nun. in diameter, with a piston stroke of 4 10 mm. On trials, at various loads up to 3,550 h.h.p., the fuel consumption at this output, excluding the oil utilised lor driving the scavenging blowers, was ,351 b per h.h.p. hour.