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Description: | This is a ship's diesel engine, built in Sunderland at the Doxford Engine Works. The engine is designed to drive a ship's propeller, to which it would be connected by a long shaft. It weighs 125 tonnes, and its power output is 4,050 kW (5,500 horsepower). This engine was not built into a ship, but kept at the works for research and development. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | made in the North East industry shipbuilding | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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