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.