A Short History of Naval and Marine Engineering

Admiralty adopted afterwards Babcock and Wilcox battleships Britain built Captain century coal Company compound engines condenser construction cruisers cylinders cylindrical boilers destroyers diameter Diesel engines direct-acting Dockyard driven early electric engine room experiments firm fitted fleet fuel gearing gines guns high-pressure indicated horse-power Institution invention iron ships iron steam John knots later launched Liverpool Lloyd's Register low-pressure machinery marine engineering Maudslays mercantile nominal horse-power Normand officers oil engines paddle wheels Parsons patent Penn pioneers piston Portsmouth propeller shaft propulsion pump Rattler reciprocating engines Rennie revolutions per minute Royal Navy Science Museum screw propeller shipbuilding speed square inch steam boat steam engine Steam Navigation steam pressure steam turbine steam vessels steamers steamship stroke surface condensers Thames Thornycroft tion tonnage tons displacement torpedo boat trials triple-expansion engine tubes turret twin-screw valves voyage warships water-tube boilers Watt William Yarrow