10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VEDETTE BOAT»
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vedette boat in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Motor Vedette Boat. The motor vedette boat has again come into prominence
lately, and several governments are apparently waking up to the fact that this Upe
of craft is a handy unit to possess in their navies. More especially are the
republics ...
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The Model Engineer and Practical Electrician
a vedette boat or naval service launch), don't! oh, don't ! put guns aboard. The
days of privateering are passed, so if you do not wish to have the facetious
comments of other and older model mariners, forgo the pleasure of fitting those
awful ...
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The Model Engineer and Electrician: A Journal of Mechanics ...
... to turn it, is advertised to be let in the city of Liege, Belgium, where one-dog
and two-dog tilted carts and wagons are common. A Vedette Boat. — A vedette
boat, driven by an explosion motor, has been purchased at Maisons- Laffite, near
...
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Report Made to the Bureau of Steam-Engineering, Navy ...
... by a duplicate vedette boat on the 2d of August, 1881, in smooth water and
calm air, over the base of one geographical mile at Stokes Bay, England, the
vessel drawing 2 feet 2 inches of water forward, and 3 feet 9 inches aft; mean, 2
feet Hi ...
United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Engineering, Benjamin Franklin Isherwood, 1882
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Report of the proceedings and abstracts of the papers read
In that year greater speed was required; the 48-foot vedette boat was evolved,
and a speed of 13 knots obtained. Further developments led to the patent
turnabout, double rudder boat, and in 1882 a 42-foot boat on this principle was
completed ...
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Pansegrouw's Crossword Dictionary
... drifter, gig, hydrofoil, hydroplane, trawler, vedette boat powered by sail
catamaran, coble, dhow, dinghy, felucca, gig, hoy, junk, lugger, pinnace, sampan,
skiff, sloop boat propeller oar, screw, wheel boat race regatta boat-shaped
cymbiform, ...
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Journal of the American Society of Naval Engineers
... boats, and act as a floating, workshop for a fleet. The principal dimensions of
the Vulcan are as follows : Length, . . . . -350 feet. Beam, . . . . . 58 feet.
Displacement, .... 6,620 tons. She will carry six second-class torpedo boats, one
vedette boat ...
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Journal of the American Society of Naval Engineers, Inc
The firm of Yarrow 8: Co. have just produced a 60-foot vedette boat equipped
with triple screws, the two outside being driven by two four-cylinder, 6}/_- X 6
motors, coupled direct to the shaft. The center screw is driven by one motor on
similar ...
American Society of Naval Engineers, 1906
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Notes on Naval Progress
The anchor- weighing apparatus consists of a two-cylinder horizontal steam
engine actuating two small chain windlasses and a large capstan; the latter can
also be operated by hand. Of the 14. boats, one is a vedette boat 45 feet long,
and ...
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General information series
The anchor- weighing apparatus consists of a two-cylinder horizontal steam
engine actuating two small chain windlasses and a large capstan; the latter can
also be operated by hand. Of the 14 boats, one is a vedette boat 45 feet long, and
one ...
United States. Office of Naval Intelligence, 1901
