| | Career England | | | Laid down: | | | Launched: | 1894 | | Status: | Museum ship | | General Characteristics | | Displacement: | 44.5 tons | | Length: | 103 ft 9 in (31.6 m) | | Beam: | 9 ft (2.7 m) | | Draught: | 3 ft (0.9 m) | | Propulsion: | Three-stage axial-flow Parsons steam turbine driving two 12 ft 6 in (3.8 m) outer shafts, each with three 18 in (457 mm) diameter, 24 in (610 mm) pitch propellers, and one inner shaft with three propellers.
2,000 hp (1.5 MW) three-drum water-tube coal fired boiler with double ended 1,100 ft² (102 m²) heating surface.
200 lbf/in² (1.4 MPa), 170 lbf/in² (1.2 MPa) at the turbine | | Speed: | 34.5 knots (64 km/h) | | Complement: | | Turbinia was the first steam turbine powered steamship, built as an experimental vessel in 1894 and demonstrated dramatically at the Spithead Navy Review in 1897, setting the standard for the next generation of steamships. The vessel can still be seen at The Discovery Museum in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Image File history File linksMetadata Turbinia_At_Speed. ...
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Rituraj-rituraj 07:07, 7 January 2007 (UTC) A rotor of a modern steam turbine, used in a power plant A steam turbine is a mechanical device that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam, and converts it into useful mechanical work. ...
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Discovery Museum is situated in Blandford Square in Newcastle upon Tyne. ...
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Development
Charles Algernon Parsons invented the steam turbine in 1884, and having foreseen its potential to power ships he set up the Marine Steam Turbine Company with five associates in 1893. To develop this he had the experimental vessel Turbinia built of very light steel by the firm of Brown and Hood, based at Wallsend on Tyne. Charles Algernon Parsons Compund Steam Turbine, circa 1887 Sir Charles Algernon Parsons, O.M. (June 13, 1854 – February 11, 1931) was a British engineer, best known for his invention of the steam turbine. ...
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Wallsend is a town on the north bank of the River Tyne in North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England. ...
The Admiralty was kept informed of developments, and Turbinia was launched on 2 August 1894. Despite the success of the turbine engine, initial trials with one propeller were disappointing. After researching the problem of cavitation and constructing the first cavitation tunnel, Parsons fitted three axial flow turbines to three shafts, each shaft in turn driving three propellers. In trials this achieved a top speed of over 34 knots (63 km/h), so that "the passengers aboard would be convinced beyond all doubt Turbinia was Charles Parsons' winning North Sea greyhound". Old Admiralty House, Whitehall, London, Thomas Ripley, architect, 1723-26, was not admired by his contemporaries and earned him some scathing couplets from Alexander Pope The Admiralty was historically the authority in the United Kingdom responsible for the command of the Royal Navy. ...
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Cavitation tunnel of the Versuchsanstalt für Wasserbau und Schiffbau in Berlin // Definition A water tunnel is an experimental facility used for testing the hydrodynamic behavior of submerged bodies in flowing water. ...
Demonstration As an audacious publicity stunt Parsons brought the ship uninvited to the Navy Review for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee at Spithead on 26 June 1897 and in front of the Prince of Wales, Lords of the Admiralty and foreign dignitaries the Turbinia, much faster than any other ships, raced between the two lines of large ships and easily evaded the Navy's patrol boats. Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837, and the first Empress of India from 1 May 1876, until her death on 22 January 1901. ...
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After further high speed trials attended by the Admiralty, Parsons set up the Turbinia Works at Wallsend which then constructed two turbine powered torpedo boats for the Navy, HMS Viper and HMS Cobra which were launched in 1899. Although both these vessels tragically came to grief, the Admiralty was convinced. In 1900 the Turbinia steamed to Paris and was shown to French officials then displayed at the Paris Exhibition. The Viper class was a group of two Torpedo Boat Destroyers (TBD) built for the British Royal Navy in 1899. ...
HMS Cobra, named after the cobra snake, was a destroyer of the Royal Navy, launched in 1899 but wrecked in 1901. ...
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City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Paris Eiffel tower as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro. ...
The first turbine powered merchant vessel, the Clyde steamer TS King Edward, followed in 1901. (Her successor, the TS Queen Mary of 1932, is now a floating restaurant on the River Thames in London) The Admiralty confirmed in 1905 that all future Royal Navy vessels were to be turbine powered, and in 1906 the first turbine powered battleship, HMS Dreadnought was launched. Henry Bells PS Comet started a rapid expansion of steam services on the Firth of Clyde, and within four years a steamer service was in operation on the inland Loch Lomond, a forerunner of the lake steamers that still grace the Swiss lakes. ...
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TS Queen Mary laid up in harbour at Greenock in 1981. ...
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The sixth HMS Dreadnought of the British Royal Navy was the first battleship to have a uniform main battery, rather than having a secondary battery of smaller guns. ...
In 2000, the yacht was the focal point of a year long £10.7m redevelopment programme at Newcastle's Discovery Museum. Prior to which she was located at Newcastle's Military Vehicle Museum where she had been since being re-united with her aft section in the early 1960s, after being cut in two in 1927.
The gallery around Turbinia was the first area to be refurbished with the main part of the work involving raising the roof by one storey to create viewing galleries on three levels.
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