RMS Victorian
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RMS Victorian was the world's first turbine-powered ocean liner. She was designed as a transatlantic liner and mail ship for Allan Line and launched in 1904.
Victorian in a 1904 magazine illustration
Despite unsatisfactory initial sea trials, Charles Parsons correctly predicted that Victorian and her sister would be a success
Victorian's sister ship Virginian
The French cruiser Cassard, with which Victorian bombarded Moroccan villages in September 1914
Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company was a British engineering company based on the River Tyne at Wallsend, North East England.
RMS Victorian
…furnaces whose smoke was exhausted through a large single funnel. Her boilers fed steam at 180 pounds per square inch (12 bar) to the high-pressure Parsons turbine driving her centre shaft. Exhaust steam from the high-pressure turbine drove the low-pressure Parsons turbines on her port and starboard (wing) shafts…
The rotating blade assembly of a Parsons marine turbine.
Turbine reduction gearing of Vespasian, 1908.