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Turbinia
Sign in to saveTurbinia is the first steam turbine-powered steamship. Built as an experimental vessel in 1894 by Sir Charles Algernon Parsons, and easily the fastest ship in the world at that time, Turbinia was demonstrated dramatically at the Spithead Navy Review in 1897 and set the standard for the next generation of steamships, the majority of which would be turbine powered. The vessel is currently located at the Discovery Museum in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England, while her original powerplant is located at the Science Museum in London.
Key facts
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- Turbinia At Speed.jpg
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- Turbinia at speed in 1897
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- United Kingdom
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- Turbinia
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- Sir Charles Algernon Parsons
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- 2 August 1894
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- 1927
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- 1960s
- Ship/career.nickname
- "The Ocean Greyhound"
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- Museum ship
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- 1 water-tube boiler
- Ship/characteristics.propulsion
- Three-stage axial-flow direct-acting Parsons steam turbine driving two outer shafts, each with three , propellers, and one inner shaft with three propellers , at the turbine
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8 sectionsContents
- Development
- Demonstration
- ''Crosby'' incident
- As a museum ship
- Notes
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Turbinia is the first steam turbine-powered steamship. Built as an experimental vessel in 1894 by Sir Charles Algernon Parsons, and easily the fastest ship in the world at that time, Turbinia was demonstrated dramatically at the Spithead Navy Review in 1897 and set the standard for the next generation of steamships, the majority of which would be turbine powered. The vessel is currently located at the Discovery Museum in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England, while her original powerplant is located at the Science Museum in London.
==Development== Charles Algernon Parsons invented the modern steam turbine in 1884, and having foreseen its potential to power ships, he set up the Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company in 1897. To develop this, he had the experimental vessel Turbinia built in a light design of steel by the firm of Brown and Hood, based at Wallsend on Tyne in the North East of England.