File:Liberty ship 140-ton VTE engine.jpg
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English: 140-ton – also described as 135-ton – vertical triple expansion steam engine of the type used to power World War II Liberty ships, assembled for testing prior to delivery. The engine is 21 feet (6.4 meters) long and 19 feet (5.8 meters) tall and was designed to operate at 76 rpm and propel a Liberty ship at about 11 knots (12.7 mph; 20.4 km/hr). |
| Date | During the period of construction of Liberty ships (1941-1945) |
| Source | Scanned from Live (program published by Project Liberty Ship for cruises of the Liberty ship SS John W. Brown), 2013 edition, page 11. Additional descriptive information from p. 10 of the same publication. |
| Author | United States Maritime Commission photo |
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| 2013-10-06 17:03 | 1420×1774× (1753727 bytes) | Mdnavman | {{Information |Description = 140-ton [[vertical riple expansion]] [[steam engine]] of the type used to power [[World War II]] [[Liberty ship]]s, assembled for testing prior to delivery. |Source = Scanned from ''Live'' (program published by... |
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| current | 13:08, 1 February 2020 | | 1,420 × 1,774 (1.27 MB) | Hohum | Greyscale |
| 14:54, 29 August 2019 |  | 1,420 × 1,774 (1.67 MB) | Wiki LIC | Transferred from en.wikipedia via #commonshelper |
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