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    Turbinia was the first steam turbine-powered steamship. Built as an experimental vessel in 1894, and easily the fastest ship in the world at that time...
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    Company in Newcastle. Famously, in June 1897, his turbine-powered yacht, Turbinia, turned up unannounced at the Navy Review for the Diamond Jubilee of Queen...
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    England. It displays many exhibits of local history, including the ship, Turbinia. It is managed by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums. The Discovery Museum...
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    usually required, although numerous early ships through World War I, such as Turbinia, had direct drive from the steam turbines to the propeller shafts. Another...
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    244-245. Adrian Osler (October 1981). "Turbinia" (PDF). (ASME-sponsored booklet to mark the designation of Turbinia as an international engineering landmark)...
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    In marine service, (pioneered on the Turbinia), steam turbines with reduction gearing (although the Turbinia has direct turbines to propellers with...
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    15, 2011. Retrieved November 30, 2008. Ian Whitehead (June 13, 2013). ""Turbinia" at speed – but who's on the conning tower?". Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums...
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  • invented for marine use. The first vessel powered by a Parsons turbine was Turbinia, launched in 1894. The successful demonstration of this vessel led to the...
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    199 Shieldhall Sir Walter Scott Sundowner Tern Thalatta HMS Trincomalee Turbinia HMS Unicorn HMS Victory HMS Warrior Waverley HQS Wellington Wingfield Castle...
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    UK Patent Office. In 1897, Alfred J. West obtained photographs of the Turbinia steam yacht travelling at full speed at the Royal Fleet Review. He was...
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    located in the Discovery Museum in Newcastle. At the bow is Charles Parsons Turbinia of 1897, recreating the meeting of the two great vessels (then first and...
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    199 Shieldhall Sir Walter Scott Sundowner Tern Thalatta HMS Trincomalee Turbinia HMS Unicorn HMS Victory HMS Warrior Waverley HQS Wellington Wingfield Castle...
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    Sean Connery and Peter Finch. Charles Parsons launched his revolutionary Turbinia here in 1894, thus not only revolutionising the navies of the world, but...
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    turbine. The spectacular unauthorized demonstration of the turbine-powered Turbinia at the 1897 Spithead Navy Review, which, significantly, was of torpedo-boat...
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    199 Shieldhall Sir Walter Scott Sundowner Tern Thalatta HMS Trincomalee Turbinia HMS Unicorn HMS Victory HMS Warrior Waverley HQS Wellington Wingfield Castle...
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    (ON 353)⚓ (1894) Effie M. Morrissey⛵ (1894) Henry Ramey Upcher⚓ (1894) Turbinia⚓ (1894) Vridni⚓ (1894) Lagaren⚓ (1894) Bessie⛵ (1895) C.A. Thayer⚓ (1895)...
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    199 Shieldhall Sir Walter Scott Sundowner Tern Thalatta HMS Trincomalee Turbinia HMS Unicorn HMS Victory HMS Warrior Waverley HQS Wellington Wingfield Castle...
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    199 Shieldhall Sir Walter Scott Sundowner Tern Thalatta HMS Trincomalee Turbinia HMS Unicorn HMS Victory HMS Warrior Waverley HQS Wellington Wingfield Castle...
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    speed of ships with his dramatic unauthorised demonstration of his yacht Turbinia with her speed of up to 34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph) at Queen Victoria's...
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    (ON 353)⚓ (1894) Effie M. Morrissey⛵ (1894) Henry Ramey Upcher⚓ (1894) Turbinia⚓ (1894) Vridni⚓ (1894) Lagaren⚓ (1894) Bessie⛵ (1895) C.A. Thayer⚓ (1895)...
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    (ON 353)⚓ (1894) Effie M. Morrissey⛵ (1894) Henry Ramey Upcher⚓ (1894) Turbinia⚓ (1894) Vridni⚓ (1894) Lagaren⚓ (1894) Bessie⛵ (1895) C.A. Thayer⚓ (1895)...
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    (ON 353)⚓ (1894) Effie M. Morrissey⛵ (1894) Henry Ramey Upcher⚓ (1894) Turbinia⚓ (1894) Vridni⚓ (1894) Lagaren⚓ (1894) Bessie⛵ (1895) C.A. Thayer⚓ (1895)...
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    Cogswell's Feiseen: 50.9 km/h (31.6 mph) 1897, Charles Algernon Parsons' Turbinia: 62.9 km/h (39.1 mph) 1903, Charles R. Flint's Arrow: 72.5 km/h (45.06 mph)...
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    achieved publicity by demonstrating it unofficially in the 100-foot (30 m) Turbinia at the Spithead Naval Review in 1897. This facilitated a generation of...
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    firm of Clarke Chapman. In 1894 Parsons' Marine Turbine Company launched Turbinia, the first ship to be powered by electric turbines. She can be still be...
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    propelling a ship with a steam turbine, and built a demonstration vessel, the Turbinia, easily the fastest vessel afloat at the time. 1899: Charles Gordon Curtis...
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    199 Shieldhall Sir Walter Scott Sundowner Tern Thalatta HMS Trincomalee Turbinia HMS Unicorn HMS Victory HMS Warrior Waverley HQS Wellington Wingfield Castle...
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    199 Shieldhall Sir Walter Scott Sundowner Tern Thalatta HMS Trincomalee Turbinia HMS Unicorn HMS Victory HMS Warrior Waverley HQS Wellington Wingfield Castle...
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    199 Shieldhall Sir Walter Scott Sundowner Tern Thalatta HMS Trincomalee Turbinia HMS Unicorn HMS Victory HMS Warrior Waverley HQS Wellington Wingfield Castle...
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    199 Shieldhall Sir Walter Scott Sundowner Tern Thalatta HMS Trincomalee Turbinia HMS Unicorn HMS Victory HMS Warrior Waverley HQS Wellington Wingfield Castle...
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