Published Resources Details Journal Article

Title
French marine engines
In
Engineering
Imprint
vol. 54, 26 August 1892, pp. 256-257 and 262
Description

Accession No.934

Abstract

Illustrations of two types of marine engine constructed by the Forges et Chantiers de la Mediterranee, one being for the Haitian despatch boat Toussaint-Louverture (length 164 feet between perpendiculars, beam 24 feet 8 inches, draught 9 feet 6 inches; speed 14 knots) fitted with 26-inch by 45-inch by 23.6-inch stroke inverted-vertical compound engine constructed from the plans and under the supervision of Mons. Landeaui, armament; one 16 centimetre Canet gun mounted on a central pivot forward, two 12-centimetre Canet guns mounted on central pivots, placed each in a half turret on the broadside, and two Nordenfelt machine guns. The other engines were for three first-class torpedo boats (length 114 feet 10 inches between perpendiculars, beam 11 feet 3 inches, draught 7 feet 9 inches, displacement 57 tons; contract speed 20 knots) for the Roumanian Government, engines; inverted -vertical triple-expansion 12.2-inch by 17.7-inch by 26.7 -inch by 14.9-inch stroke, operating on steam supplied at 156 pounds per square inch by marine locomotive boilers, armament; one fixed torpedo tube, and one 1.45-inch Hotchkiss cannon.