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2. SS Haiti - Wikipedia

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   SS Haiti was a passenger and freight ship built for the Colombian Mail Steamship Company built at Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Virginia and delivered 15 December 1932. [6] The ship was renamed briefly Puerto Rico in 1938 and Monterey in 1939 to operate for the New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Company until requisitioned with ...

3. Powership - Wikipedia

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   A powership (or power ship) is a special purpose ship, on which a power plant is installed to serve as a power generation resource. Converted from existing ships, powerships are self-propelled, ready to go infrastructure for developing countries that plug into national grids where required. [1] Unmotorised powerships, known as power barges, are ...

4. SS Jacona (1918) - Wikipedia

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   The U.S. government flew in spare parts to make the necessary repairs to the generators and later the power was restored from the ship. The U.S. Economic Cooperation Administration helped build a permanent 22,000 kilowatt hydroelectric power plant and a 60,000 kilowatt steam-powered electric generator for facilities in Korea when the Jacona was ...

5. Combined diesel–electric and gas - Wikipedia

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   A CODLAG system employs electric motors which are connected to the propeller shafts (usually 2). The motors are powered by diesel generators. For higher speeds, a gas turbine powers the shafts via a cross-connecting gearbox; for cruise speed, the drive train of the turbine is disengaged with clutches.

6. USS Winchester - Wikipedia

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   Winchester had a tonnage of 399 gross register tons (GRT). The yacht was 225 feet (68.6 m) long with a beam of 21 ft (6.4 m) and a draft of 5 ft 6 in (1.7 m). The ship was propelled by two geared Parsons steam turbines driving two shafts powered by two watertube boilers creating 15,000 horsepower (11,000 kW).

7. Stephan Jantzen (icebreaker) - Wikipedia

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   The ship's diesel-electric power plant consists of three 1,800-horsepower (1,300 kW) 10-cylinder 13D100 two-stroke opposed-piston diesel engines coupled to double-armature direct current (DC) generators. They provided power to 2,500 hp (1,900 kW) electric propulsion motors driving two 3.5-metre (11 ft) fixed pitch propellers in the stern and a ...