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Royal Navy Propulsion in the 1930s?

I'm slowly trying to get my head around the issue of Royal Navy boilers and I've got a few questions. Whilst the Royal Navy rightly had a reputation as one of the best navies in the world being either...

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Didn't HMS Warspite get 400psi/700°F boilers in a refit? This worked quite well and could have been widely adopted.

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perfectgeneral wrote:Didn't HMS Warspite get 400psi/700°F boilers in a refit? This worked quite well and could have been widely adopted.Could well be. I couldn't say with regards HMS Warspite but IIRC...

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UK Admiralty 3-drum 400 psi/700°f Colossus, Majestic Admiralty 3-drum 400 psi/700°f Audacious, CentaurTribal up to Crescent class = all and preceding - 300 psi/600-630°f boilers, data from March,...

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And from 1950, 1200 psi/900 degrees

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OK - Boiler Mfg Type Press. Temp. Class (individual ships in italics) UK Admiralty 3-drum 400 psi 700° Colossus, Majestic # # 400 psi 700° Audacious, Centaur FW ? 440 psi 750° Victorious (1958+) # #...

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Thanks for the updates/specifics guys, good to see that I was roughly right in understanding things. Makes a nice change. Still bloody depressing in where the Royal Navy had become in comparison to...

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Two navies are compared.It is important to note what was driving the propulsion engineering philosophy in both navies to understand why they did (or did not do) what they did.The RN anticipated a...

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http://www.steamautomobile.com/northea/lamont.html1925 technology.

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perfectgeneral wrote:http://www.steamautomobile.com/northea/lamont.html1925 technology.If it sounds to good to be true, it's probably not true. Most sea salts are inversely soluble, and come out of...

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