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Turbinia was the
first steam turbine-powered steamship.
Built as an
experimental vessel in 1894, and
easily the
fastest ship in the
world at that time...
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Company in Newcastle. Famously, in June 1897, his turbine-powered yacht,
Turbinia,
turned up
unannounced at the Navy
Review for the
Diamond Jubilee of Queen...
- England. It
displays many
exhibits of
local history,
including the ship,
Turbinia. It is
managed by Tyne & Wear
Archives & Museums. The
Discovery Museum...
- 244-245.
Adrian Osler (October 1981). "
Turbinia" (PDF). (ASME-sponsored
booklet to mark the
designation of
Turbinia as an
international engineering landmark)...
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usually required,
although numerous early ships through World War I, such as
Turbinia, had
direct drive from the
steam turbines to the
propeller shafts. Another...
- In
marine service, (pioneered on the
Turbinia),
steam turbines with
reduction gearing (although the
Turbinia has
direct turbines to
propellers with...
- 15, 2011.
Retrieved November 30, 2008. Ian
Whitehead (June 13, 2013). ""
Turbinia" at
speed – but who's on the
conning tower?". Tyne & Wear
Archives & Museums...
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Shieldhall Sir
Walter Scott Sundowner Tern
Thalatta HMS Trincomalee
Turbinia HMS Unicorn HMS Victory HMS Warrior
Waverley HQS
Wellington Wingfield Castle...
- Sean
Connery and
Peter Finch.
Charles Parsons launched his
revolutionary Turbinia here in 1894, thus not only
revolutionising the
navies of the world, but...
- turbine. The
spectacular unauthorized demonstration of the turbine-powered
Turbinia at the 1897
Spithead Navy Review, which, significantly, was of torpedo-boat...
