First Motor Launch Driven By Gas Turbines
LONDON, Out. 16 (Recd. 6 pm).— The first motor launch to be driven by gas turbines made demonstration runs in the Thames recently. Its engine, a Rover T 8 unit, is of the type which the Admiralty is expected to order for trials In small craft. The tiny engine weighs about four cwt, and is four feet long, two and ahalf feet wide and two and a-half feet high. Under its power the twin-fun-nelled 60ft. launch Torquil moved silently along Chelsea Beach at a comfortable cruising speed of e'ghl or nine knots. This was the second small ship with a gas turbine engine to undergo tests on water. The first was the M.G.B. 2009, which has now completed extensive trials for the Admiralty and is now used for training at H.M.S. Hornet, in the Solent. —Special N.Z.P.A. Correspondent.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 17 October 1950, Page 5
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