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C&S Connect (on-line balloting and tracking system) launched for Boiler and_Pressure Vessel Committees 2007: ISO TC11 Standard 16528—Boilers and Pressure Vessels published, establishing performance requirements for the construction of boilers and pressure vessels and facilitating registration of BPV Codes to this standard 2007
Most post-war European thermionic valve (vacuum tube) manufacturers have used the Mullard–Philips tube designation naming scheme. Special quality variants may have the letter "S" appended, or the device description letters may be swapped with the numerals (e.g. an E82CC is a special quality version of an ECC82)
Thompson Hiawatha model canoe. The Thompson Brothers Boat Manufacturing Company of Peshtigo, Wisconsin was a manufacturer of pleasure boats and canoes.Founded by brothers Peter and Christ Thompson in 1904, [1] the company became prominent in the field and built boats for nearly one hundred years. [2]
The boat has a draft of 5.40 ft (1.65 m) with the standard keel. [1] [3] The boat is fitted with a Swedish Volvo Penta MD 7A diesel engine of 13 hp (10 kW) for docking and manoeuvring. [1] [3] For sailing downwind the design may be equipped with a spinnaker. [1] [3] The design has a hull speed of 6.38 kn (11.82 km/h). [3]
The stuffing box prevents water from entering the boat's hull. In many small fiberglass boats, for example, the stuffing box is mounted inboard near the point the shaft exits the hull. The "box" is a cylindrical assembly, typically of bronze, comprising a sleeve threaded on one end to accept adjusting and locking nuts.
The boat was conceived by Irvine Laidlaw, Baron Laidlaw as a "highly technical" boat to boost the Cape Town, South Africa yachting community. The boat was intended for production there and was designed to entice young sailors to get into keelboat sailing. [4] [5] The Cape 31 is a racing keelboat, built predominantly of glassfibre and carbon fibre.
Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Three (MTBRon 3) was a United States Navy squadron based at Naval Base Cavite, Cavite, Philippines, from September 1941 to December 1941. It was commanded by Lieutenant John D. Bulkeley and made up of six motor torpedo boats : PT-31 , PT-32 , PT-33 , PT-34 , PT-35 , and PT-41 , the last as the squadron flagship .
Each challenger team was only allowed to build one AC50 for competition and only six boats were built. The class was replaced with the monohull AC75 after the 2017 America's Cup. The class achieved a maximum peak speed of 47.2 knots (87.4 km/h) over the water, recorded by ACRM telemetry aboard Sweden's Magic Blue .