NEW LINER.
RECIPROCATING ENGINES WITH TURBINE. By Teleeraph-Press Association-OopyrieM London, June 5. . new steamer Demosthenes, built for the Aberdeen line (whoso fine liner the Pericles was recently lost off Capo Leeuwin), will sail next April. She is being fitted with duplicate sets of reciprocating engines for her wing propellers, and with a low-pressure steam turbine for tho midship screw. TURBINE AND THE "COMBINATION PRINCIPLE."
At the end of September, 1909, there ?'£. ra i 75 . "nerchant steamers and yachts ntted with turbine engines, representing a gross tonnage of about 292,000 tons, and m per cent, of tho merchant vessels are capable of a speed of 20 knots and upwards, the largest being as follows:— Tonnage. Flag. Mauretama 31,938 British Lusitania 31,. r )5() Carmania 19,524 „ Chiyo Maru „. 13,i'2G Japancso Tenyo Maru 13,454 Heliopolis 10,897 British Cpiro 10,80-1 The combination of reciprocating and turbine engines seems to be gaining ground. It was first tried, with good results, in the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Otaki. • Others havo followed suit, and tho Aberdeen liner mentioned in the cablegram will not be tho last.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 836, 7 June 1910, Page 5
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180NEW LINER. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 836, 7 June 1910, Page 5
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