Forfatter: A.-M.Inst.C E., George Frederick Zimmer
År: 1916
Forlag: Crosby Lockwood and Son
Sted: London
Sider: 752
UDK: 621.87 Zim, 621.86 Zim
Being a Treatise on the Handling and Storing of Material such as Grain, Coal, Ore, Timber, Etc., by Automatic or Semi-Automatic Machinery, together with the Various Accessories used in the Manipulation of such Plant
COALING VESSELS AT SEA
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as used by the Lidgerwood Manufacturing Co. The Russian battleship “ Retvizan ” 1 is
here shown receiving coal from the cruiser “Asia” in the Baltic Sea. The “Retvizan”
is equipped with a marine cableway operated by electric winches. This equipment was
put on after the ship was constructed. The electric winches built are of limited power,
owing to want of space, and it is not contemplated to handle more than | ton of coal
at a time. After the tests were, completed, Captain Stchensnovitch, commanding the
1 This is the ship so heavily torpedoed during the Russian and Japanese War, and finally sunk at
Port Arthur, December 1904.