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The fire room of the battleship USS Massachusetts. On a ship, the fire room, or FR or boiler room or stokehold, referred to the space, or spaces, of a vessel where water was brought to a boil. The steam was then transmitted to a separate engine room, often (but not always) located immediately aft, where it was utilized to power the vessel.
Destroyer of Worlds, a 2001 album by Swedish extreme metal band Bathory; Destroyer of Worlds, a 2009 science fiction novel by Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner; Destroyer of Worlds, a 2020 fantasy novel by Larry Correia "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.", part of a famous quote by J. Robert Oppenheimer discussed at Influence of ...
HMS Amazon was a prototype design of destroyer ordered for the Royal Navy in 1924. She was designed and built by Thornycroft in response to an Admiralty request for a new design of destroyer incorporating the lessons and technological advances of the First World War. Their great rivals Yarrow produced a similar, competitive design — that of ...
An early criticism of the class questioned the wisdom of combining such a large hull with so great a surface speed, producing a vessel with the pace of a destroyer and the turning circle of a battlecruiser. Steam power required air intakes, smoke exhausts and funnels—unique on a submarine. One critic said the K-class had "too many holes ...
"Destroyer of Worlds" is the third episode of the American science fiction television series 3 Body Problem, based on the Chinese novel series Remembrance of Earth's Past by Liu Cixin. The episode was written by series co-creator Alexander Woo , and directed by co-executive producer Andrew Stanton .
The force of the collision rolled the destroyer-minesweeper over, breaking it in two. USS Rodman (DD-456) and the Wasp rescued many survivors but the ship and 176 of its crew were killed. 176 1985 China: On 19 August an overloaded ferry operated by drunk pilots capsized in the Songhua River, 174 of the 234 people aboard were lost. [36] [37] 174 ...
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The superheat temperature of the Y160 was controlled manually by the boiler room petty officer of the watch between 750–850 °F (399–454 °C) and the steam supplied to the main turbines was at a pressure of 550 psi (3,800 kPa).