Specifications for Quadruple-Expansion, Single-Screw Propelling Engines, With Boilers and Auxiliary Machinery, for Third-Class Torpedo Boat for ... About 12 Tons Displacement
Excerpt from Specifications for Quadruple-Expansion, Single-Screw Propelling Engines, With Boilers and Auxiliary Machinery, for Third-Class Torpedo Boat for Battleship "Texas," of About 12 Tons Displacement
The propeller will be of manganese bronze or approved equivalent metal.
There will be one water- tube boiler placed in a separate compartment forward of the engine. It will be constructed for a working pressure of 250 pounds per square inch, and have about 9% square feet of grate surface, with 372 square feet of heating surface.
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