The Fastest Turbine.

Progress, Volume I, Issue 7, 1 May 1906, Page 175

The Fastest Turbine.

The first of the three new magnificent turbine steamships which the Great Western Railway Company have ordered from Messrs. Cammell, Laird and Company, Birkenhead, and Messrs. John Brown and Company, Clydebank, for the new AngloIrish service between Fishguard, North Pembrokeshire, and Rosslare, on the Wexford coast, have been launched on the Mersey. The steamers will be named St. George, St. Patrick and St. David, and will take rank as the fastest and most luxurious cross-channel vessels afloat. There is room aboard for 1,000 passengers, and sleeping accommodation for 220 first class and 100 second class is provided. The Parsons turbines will drive the vessels at a speed of 22J knots, and the distance of fifty-four nautical, or 62 statute, miles between the new ports will, therefore, be covered in two-and- three quarter hours, thus making it the shortest sea passage between England and Ireland The new route will be opened for traffic in the summer, and its effect will be to shorten the distance between places in England and the most frequented tourist centres in Ireland, to the extent in many cases of 100 miles as compared with the existing route via Dublin.