LARGEST MOTOR LINER.
The oil engine was first applied to comparatively small vessels, but year . jy year the size ,cf ships driven by oil fuel used in internal combustion engines' has steadily increased. The highest point yet reached is represented by a passenger liner shortly to be built in a British yard. Her length is GOO feet and she is „to be equipped with oil engines developing 12,000 horse power, which is about twice as great as in any motor vessel so far built. The machinery will consist of four six cylinder oil engines, each developing 3000 brake horse power at 135 revolutions per minute. The speed of this unique vessel will be 18 knots.
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Thames Star, Volume LVII, 25 August 1923, Page 6
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115LARGEST MOTOR LINER. Thames Star, Volume LVII, 25 August 1923, Page 6
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