Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having three screws, one of which is in the center line: restricted to war-ships and turbine-driven steamers.
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Examples
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The reciprocating engines drove the wing-propellers and the turbine a mid-propeller, making her a triple-screw vessel.
The Loss of the S. S. Titanic Its Story and Its Lessons Lawrence Beesley 1922
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At Hankow I embarked on the China Merchants 'steamer Kweili, the only triple-screw steamer on the River, and four days later, on February 2ist, I landed at Ichang, the most inland port on the Yangtse yet reached by steam.
AN AUSTRALIAN IN CHINA Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920 1895
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At Hankow I embarked on the China Merchants 'steamer _Kweili_, the only triple-screw steamer on the River, and four days later, on February
An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma George Ernest Morrison 1891
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She was a twelve-hundred-ton, triple-screw, turbine-driven boat, and, thanks to the space-economy of the new system, her builders had been able to stow away fifteen thousand horse-power in her engine-room, and this when fully developed gave a speed in smooth water of thirty-five knots or a little over forty statute miles an hour.
The Mummy and Miss Nitocris A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension George Chetwynd Griffith 1881
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