• The New London Ship and Engine Company (NELSECO) was established in Groton, Connecticut as a subsidiary of the Electric Boat Company to manufacture diesel...
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    vessels, and slightly beyond New London Ship and Engine Company sister company shipbuildinghistory.com Electric Launch Company Lake George Resident Acquires...
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    the establishment of the New London Ship and Engine Company (NELSECO) as a subsidiary in 1911. NELSECO was the primary engine manufacturer for Electric...
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    Wellington on ship building, creating the Fore River Engine Company. Following an order from Maine for a 50-horsepower engine, Thomas A. Watson and Frank O...
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    Hunslet Engine Company is a locomotive building company, founded in 1864 in Hunslet, England. It manufactured steam locomotives for over 100 years and currently...
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    Chester W. Nimitz (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
    the building of diesel engines for the fleet oil tanker Maumee, under construction at the New London Ship and Engine Company, Groton, Connecticut. In...
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    AA-1-class submarine (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
    situation. That and other circumstances resulted in poor engine reliability. The engineering plant included four New London Ship and Engine Company (NELSECO)...
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    by superstructure, masts, or guns. The first were built by New London Ship and Engine Company beginning on 24 November 1917. The K-gun, standardized in...
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    new company was named StarLauro Cruises and had 2 ships, Monterey and Achille Lauro. In 1994, the company ordered its first newly constructed ships,...
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  • The John of London was a ship famous for bringing the first printing press to the British Colonies of North America; however, the first press in the American...
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    aviation companies, designing and manufacturing both airframes and aircraft engines. Notable aircraft produced by the company include the 'Boxkite', the...
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  • London and Glasgow Shipbuilding Company, also known as the London and Glasgow Engineering and Iron Shipbuilding Company, was a shipbuilding firm established...
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    Metro Machine Corp., and ships based on the West Coast will receive upgrades at General Dynamics National Steel and Shipbuilding Company in San Diego. Major...
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    A marine steam engine is a steam engine that is used to power a ship or boat. This article deals mainly with marine steam engines of the reciprocating...
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    Reveals Name of New Ship, Queen Anne". www.travelmarketreport.com. Retrieved 29 July 2022. Parry, Ann (1963). Parry of the Arctic. London. Grant, Kay (1967)...
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  • four-ship London-New York service with fortnightly departures in each direction. Two of the ships were to be owned by an American company, and the other...
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    stationary steam engines powered the factories of the Industrial Revolution. Steam engines replaced sails for ships on paddle steamers, and steam locomotives...
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    United States S-class submarine (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
    20 feet 9 inches (6.3 m) Draft: 16 feet (4.9 m) Propulsion: 2 × New London Ship and Engine Company (NELSECO) diesels, 600 hp (448 kW) each; 2 × Electro-Dynamic...
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    The first recorded rudimentary steam engine was the aeolipile mentioned by Vitruvius between 30 and 15 BC and, described by Heron of Alexandria in 1st-century...
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    Steamship (redirect from Steam ship)
    incorrectly assumed by many to stand for "steamship". Ships powered by internal combustion engines use a prefix such as "MV" for motor vessel, so it is...
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  • Frank Cable (category People from New Milford, Connecticut)
    Lawrence Y. Spear organized the New London Ship and Engine Company (NELSECO) to build the diesel engines for the Navy's D and E class submarines. The NELSECO...
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    Engines used by the British company Land Rover in its 4×4 vehicles have included four-cylinder petrol engines, and four- and five-cylinder diesel engines...
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    the break never reached the ship itself, and despite three hours under full sail and full speed on the engine, the ship did not budge. Over the next...
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  • in June 1858. Another ship with the same engine was Callao built by John Reid in 1858. On trials fuel consumption for these ships was: Inca 2.5 lbs/ihp/h...
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    causing significant damage to the ship and the berth. Dali was sold from Stellar Marine to Grace Ocean, a Singaporean company, in October 2016; she was placed...
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    Works on the River Thames, London, England. She was by far the largest ship ever built at the time of her 1858 launch, and had the capacity to carry 4...
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  • Electric Launch Company sister company New London Ship and Engine Company sister company to Submarine Boat Company sister company Bauer and Roberts, p. 253...
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    steam engine (or Corliss engine) is a steam engine, fitted with rotary valves and with variable valve timing patented in 1849, invented by and named after...
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    success for the company, which could thus own new, faster ships such as Shalimar, Sultana, Emma and White Star. In addition, the company also ran voyages...
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    HMT Empire Windrush (category Ship fires)
    explosion and fire in the engine room that killed four people. With the fire out of control, the ship was abandoned; the other 1494 passengers and crew were...
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