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TURBINIA
Turbinia was the
world's first ship powered by steam turbines.
Fitted
with three steam turbines, each one driving a shaft
fitted with three propellers, TURBINIA achieved 32.76
knots in April 1897, becoming the fastest vessel in the
world.
She was designed by
engineer Sir Charles Parsons in as
an experimental craft intended to demonstrate the
potential of the successful steam turbines already being
produced by his company to drive generators for ship
propulsion. Many years later, Turbinia remained the easily fastest ship in the world,
capable of reaching 34.5 knots!
TURBINIA’s iconic moment came during Queen Victoria’s
Diamond Jubilee Naval Review on June
26th1897,
where she was shown off by being driven at over 30 knots
between the lines of the World’s warships
and zipped up and down in
front of the crowd, easily evading a Navy picket boat
that tried to stop her, swamping it with her wake. Her
remarkable demonstration led to orders from the Royal
Navy for two turbine powered torpedo boat destroyers.
The success of these two small warships paved the way
for the widespread introduction of steam turbines into
the navies of the world. The
Admiralty confirmed in 1905 that all future Royal Navy
vessels were to be turbine-powered, and in 1906 the
first turbine-powered battleship, the revolutionary HMS
Dreadnought, was launched. By
1907, Parsons turbines were powering the largest
transatlantic liners,
MAURETANIA and
LUSITANIA.
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On 11 January 1907, TURBINIA was badly damaged when she
was hit by a ship being launched from the other bank of
the Tyne. On October 30th, 1994,
102 years after her launch, Turbinia was put on display
to the public in March 1996 at Newcastle's Museum of
Science and Engineering. She was listed in the
Core Collection of the National Historic Fleet in 2000.
This primarily wood, scratch-built,
plank-on-frame TURBINIA
boat model is
24" long x 8.5" tall x 4.5"
wide (base) x 2.5" wide (ship) $1,700  Shipping
and insurance in the US are included. Other countries,
$300 flat rate.
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For display case, please
click here:
Model Ship Display Case
Learn more about the fast
boat Turbinia here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbinia
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