by William Lafferty » September 24, 2022, 12:57 pm
That would be the first North American turbine driven vessel and the first turbine driven vessel to cross the Atlantic, the appropriately named twin-screw Turbinia, launched 20 March 1904 at Hebburn-on-Tyne, England, by Hawthorn, Leslie Co., Ltd., for the Turbine Steamship Company, Ltd., of Hamilton, Ontario, for fast Hamilton-Toronto passenger service. Its power plant consisted of a three phase steam turbine, 7000-shp, built by the Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Engine Co., Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, supplied by two large Scotch boilers, 17'6" x 10'6," built by its builders at their St. Peters-on-Tyne shop. It left Newcastle on 1 June 1904 and arrived at Hamilton 29 June 1904. It took six days to traverse the Atlantic. It was a beautiful vessel, very "Continental" for obvious reasons looking much like the turbine passenger vessels then multiplying on the Irish and North Seas and the English Channel. It ended up as a day boat for Canada Steanship Lines, Ltd., between Montréal and Québec, 1929-1930, and was dismantled at Sorel in the fall of 1937.
That would be the first North American turbine driven vessel and the first turbine driven vessel to cross the Atlantic, the appropriately named twin-screw [I]Turbinia[/I], launched 20 March 1904 at Hebburn-on-Tyne, England, by Hawthorn, Leslie Co., Ltd., for the Turbine Steamship Company, Ltd., of Hamilton, Ontario, for fast Hamilton-Toronto passenger service. Its power plant consisted of a three phase steam turbine, 7000-shp, built by the Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Engine Co., Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, supplied by two large Scotch boilers, 17'6" x 10'6," built by its builders at their St. Peters-on-Tyne shop. It left Newcastle on 1 June 1904 and arrived at Hamilton 29 June 1904. It took six days to traverse the Atlantic. It was a beautiful vessel, very "Continental" for obvious reasons looking much like the turbine passenger vessels then multiplying on the Irish and North Seas and the English Channel. It ended up as a day boat for Canada Steanship Lines, Ltd., between Montréal and Québec, 1929-1930, and was dismantled at Sorel in the fall of 1937.