Published Resources Details Journal Article
- Title
- The Herreshoff torpedo boat
- In
- Engineering
- Imprint
- vol. 27, 10 January 1879, pp. 32-33
- Description
Accession No.814
- Abstract
A torpedo boat (length 59 feet 6 inches, beam 7 feet 6 inches, draught 1 foot 3 inches; speed 16 knots) fitted with a 10.5 inch by 6 inch by 10 inch stroke 100 horsepower direct acting condensing engine operating at 350 revolutions per minute on steam supplied at 160 pounds per square inch by a Herreshoff coil boiler was built for the British Government by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, Bristol, Rhode Island, U.S.A.