Marine Engineer . Limited, Dartford. It is one of their No. U a stroke of 15 in. The machine refrigerates 12 domesticchambers, two cargo chambers, 20 cold cupboards and 20 icewater fountains. Electric Generating Sets. These are .situated in a special compartment abaft the mainengine-room ; the compartment is bordered, as it were, on itstwo .sides by the vring shafts, and the centre shaft nms throughthe compartment. The complete power plant consists of fourtinitfl, each of which cxjmprises a generator giving 3,0(X) amps,at KiO volts,,.300 kw.,driven by a compound engine develop-ing 440
Marine Engineer . Limited, Dartford. It is one of their No. U a stroke of 15 in. The machine refrigerates 12 domesticchambers, two cargo chambers, 20 cold cupboards and 20 icewater fountains. Electric Generating Sets. These are .situated in a special compartment abaft the mainengine-room ; the compartment is bordered, as it were, on itstwo .sides by the vring shafts, and the centre shaft nms throughthe compartment. The complete power plant consists of fourtinitfl, each of which cxjmprises a generator giving 3,0(X) amps,at KiO volts,,.300 kw.,driven by a compound engine develop-ing 440 , and running at 330 The steam pressureis 150 lb. per sq. in., and the cylinder diameters are 16 and 25 by 12-in. stroke. The generators and engines weresupplied by W. H. Allen Sons. & Co. Ltd., Bedford. The mainswitchboard is arranged above the generators about midwayalong the compartment on a platform stretching the full width June, 1923. THE MARINE ENGINEER AND NAVAL ARCHITECT. 215. SECr/ON A-BThe Red Star Liner Belgenland. Lay-out of Sewage Unit. (See page 216.) 216 THE MARINE ENGINEER AND NAVAL .\RCHITECT. .Tone, 1923. of the compartment. In the generator compartment are fittedabo the two rotarv transformers of the Cumberhmci ElectrolytieSystem, which is titteil to the main Iwilers and loniieiiscrs forthe pnvention of corrosion. These iiiacliiiies, wliicli weresjxcially made for the tuinherland Engineering (oni])any l)yI^jiurence Scott & Co., are shnnt wound and designed to runoff the .ships power circuit and they give a secondary outputof 2(K) ami>s at 10 volts In case the main generating .setsshould give out through tlie compartment being flooded, there isan emergency generator situated in a sjKcial comj)artuient atthe aft end of 1) deck. The prime mover for this conslsts of a THE PROPELLING MACHINERY OF PLEASURESTEAMERS. tUCjCHCH
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