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Description: | The passenger steamer 'Mauretania' was launched from Swan Hunter's Wallsend shipyard in 1906. She was powered by six turbines, made by the Wallsend Slipway and Engineering Company to Charles Parsons' design. They were capable of producing 68,000 horsepower, so the ship achieved a speed of 25 knots. Such powerful turbines had never been built into a vessel before. These blades are from one of the turbines of the 'Mauretania'.
Material: metal | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.maritimehistory.393439 | Go to resource |
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