SS Normannia (1912)
Sister ship of SS Hantonia. Both built by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Co for the London and South-Western Railway and commissioned in 1912 for the company's night service from Paris and the Continent via Havre and Southampton. They replaced twin-screw reciprocating steamers Alma and Columbia. Length overall, 299 ft. ; breadth, 36ft. ; depth', 15ft. 9in., displacement 1865 tons, and a gross tonnage of 1567. The passenger licence of the Board of Trade was for 1010 passengers. The shaft horse-power of the engines is 4986, and on the speed trials of the Normannia, which took place at Skelmorlie on the Clyde, she attained a mean of 20.165 knots on her full speed run.[1]
Boilers — one double-ended 21 ft. 10 itches long by 17 feet diameter, and one single-ended, 11 feet 4 inches long by 17 feet diameter, working at a pressure of 160 lbs. per square inch. Fitted with two lets of h.p. and l.p. and astern turbines, having double helical gear: these ran at 330 revolutions on the trial, having propellers of about 8 feet diameter.[2]
A set of reduction gears from the siter ship Hantonia is on display at the Scottish Maritime Museum, Irvine, comprising the two input pinions (from an HP and LP turbine) and the common wheel which was coupled to the propeller shaft.
Described in The Engineer, 12 April 1912. [3]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ American Register - Sunday 1 September 1912
- ↑ Liverpool Journal of Commerce - Thursday 7 November 1912
- ↑ The Engineer 1912/04/12 p.372ff.