Published Resources Details Journal Article
- Title
- Steam launch for the Viceroy of Egypt
- In
- Engineering
- Imprint
- vol. 8, 12 November 1869, p. 315
- Description
Accession No.2157
- Abstract
Steam launch (length 40 ft., beam 6 ft. 9 in.; average speed 9 miles per hour) built for the Viceroy of Egypt by Messrs. Yarrow and Hedley, Engineers, Poplar, and fitted with twin inverted vertical marine engines with 5 in. diameter cylinders (stroke not stated) operating on steam supplied at 80 pounds per square inch by a multitubular locomotive boiler., driving twin propellers two foot in diameter (pitch not stated).