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  • The Seaward had a single-screw 65 horsepower auxiliary motor, and could do 7.5 knots.

    Empire of Dreams Scott Eyman 2010

  • The single-screw steamer the SS Deutschland, of the North German Lloyd line, set sail for New York from the Ger - man port of Bremerhaven on the morning of Sunday, December 5, 1875.

    The Poet and the Wreck Ford, Mark 2009

  • The other three sonar contacts plotted were all single-screw merchantmen.

    The Cardinal of the Kremlin Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1988

  • "They're all three single-screw boats," the chief said finally.

    Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986

  • A twenty-two foot single-screw launch was lowered.

    Modesty Blaise O'Donnell, P. 1965

  • The _Pericles_ was an iron single-screw steamer of two thousand tons or thereabout.

    Under the Chilian Flag A Tale of War between Chili and Peru Harry Collingwood 1886

  • I sent you a short letter from Liverpool, saying that by the unprecedented delays of the _Urania_, which I had taken because it was the swiftest boat of the Neptune line, we had failed to pass the old, ten-day, single-screw Galaxy liner which Aristides had sailed in.

    Through the Eye of the Needle A Romance William Dean Howells 1878

  • Certainly, with single-screw vessels, as were all his fleet, it was an inestimable advantage, in intricate navigation or in close quarters, to have the help of a second screw working in opposition to the first, to throw the ship round at a critical instant.

    Admiral Farragut 1877

  • HDDs are similarly treated to a simple single-screw design that cleverly locks all drives in place.

    Atomic 2010

  • On 17 June 1918, officers of the 4th Naval District inspected '' 'Absecon'''-a single-screw, steel-hulled [[freighter]] built in 1918 by the [[New York Shipbuilding Co.]]

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

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