Three Engines Versus Two

[bmac]

I can't post now, got to go to dinner. But I sent an email last night to a friend in Singapore who is in the ship management business and got a lot of interesting info about ship pods. Tim is right on the ABB Azipods are diesel electric (nobody but the Navy can afford steam turbines these days) with power delivered to the Props at levels of 26 MW about 35,000 HP! If any one is interested I'll post more of what he sent me later.

Henry

I think the only steam turbines the Navy installs today are on Nuclear powered vessels. The rest of them are gas turbine, diesel, gas turbine/electric or diesel/electric. All burn a variant of No. 2 oil or kero.