Ocean Steamships: a Popular Account of Their Construction, Development ...
Ocean Steamships: a Popular Account of Their Construction, Development ...
French Ensor Chadwick, Albert Edward Seaton, William Henry Rideing, John H. Gould, James Douglas Jerrold Kelley, Ridgely Hunt
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In the case of the twin-screw ship, however, we have had the best of evidence, within the past two years, that with one of her engine- rooms flooded and open to the sea, she will still float and be nav- igable. For many years past the value of the twin screw has been de- bated by the builders, the managers, the captains, and the engineers of the great transatlantic lines, to whom it did not commend itself so readily as to the Admiralty. It was adopted for war-ships several years before any of t...he well-known passenger lines ventured to use it, and its first appearance in this service was in the City of New York, four years ago. Since then it has been adopted by the "White Star and the Hamburg- American lines, and though the North Ger- 14 Digitized byLjOOQlC 210 SAFETY ON THE ATLANTIC. man Lloyd has not yet applied it to the recent accessions to its fleet, its advantages over the single screw for passenger vessels, as well as Off Fire Island, New York for war-ships, are more generally conceded now than ever before.
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