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ADVANTAGES OF GEARED TURBINES
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three times their ordinary speed in a heavy sea, and what shakes the ship and breaks
Fig. 48. Water Consumption of "Vespasian" in service with Reciprocating Engines and with Geared Turbines, the propeller being the same in both cases.
the screw shafts is the shock on the plunging of the madly whirling propeller into the sea.
The "Vespasian" has now covered 20,000
