Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 174,010 pages of information and 250,208 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

SS Duchess of York

From Graces Guide
1929.

1928 This was the fourth vessel of the series of 20,000-ton cabin liners for the Liverpool-Montreal service of the Canadian Pacific Railway Co. Launched on September 28, 1928 from the yard of the John Brown and Co. Two sets of turbines with single-reduction gear, developing over 20,000 shaft horse-power, supplied with steam from six oil-fired water tube boilers at 370 psi. The boilers, superheaters and air heaters, were designed by Yarrow and Co, Scotstoun, made under licence by John Brown & Co.[1]


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