The screeeing sound of the twin-screw fish was enough to raise the hairs on your neck. ❋ Clancy, Tom, 1947- (1986)
The three new twin-screw gunboats built on the Thames, besides other ship-work reconstruction, were put together near Abadia, a village above the Fifth Cataract and north of Berber. ❋ Bennet Burleigh (N/A)
The boat is twin-screw, and the principal dimensions are: ❋ Barkham Burroughs (N/A)
Admiralty-designed twin-screw steamers, "Sheikh" "Sultan" and "Melik," were not as fast as had been expected; they could not tow any reasonably big load, and, though they were stuffed with many novelties, few of the innovations were of the least practical value. ❋ Bennet Burleigh (N/A)
These vessels could easily have carried many more hands; indeed, the newest type of Nile men-o'-war, the twin-screw steamers, were built to convey a thousand soldiers. ❋ Bennet Burleigh (N/A)
The twin-screw gunboat "Melik" also steamed up the river a few miles, but neither quest resulted in adding much to the information already possessed as to the Khalifa's intentions and exact whereabouts. ❋ Bennet Burleigh (N/A)
Duneen_, although a twin-screw vessel, was not of more than 5,000 tons burden, having been built as a mail carrier for distant ports, in which speed was regarded as the important element in her construction. ❋ Kenneth Ward (N/A)
The new twin-screw gunboats "Sultan" and "Sheik" had nine days 'rations for troops put aboard. ❋ Bennet Burleigh (N/A)
The town is fifteen days in a twin-screw steamer from Pará, some 2,500 miles. ❋ Unknown (1923)
There were side-wheelers, awkwardly constructed boats with sprawling paddles, screw propellers, and twin-screw craft; ferryboats, tugs, steam yachts, and ocean liners. ❋ Sara Ware Bassett (1920)
These small boats are as different from the big twin-screw steamers as a flat from a Broadway hotel. ❋ Unknown (1917)
And we've twin-screw triple expansion engines, indicated horse-power four thousand, and we can do 430 revolutions per minute; savvy? ❋ Oliver [pseud.] Onions (1917)
Società Siculo-Americana have added thirty-five large, twin-screw, transatlantic steamships to the emigrant service, with a capacity of ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
"A11," a steel twin-screw vessel of the Blue Funnel Line, built in 1910, and with a registered tonnage of 10,048. ❋ Herbert Brayley Collett (1912)
Stevens's twin-screw propeller completed the list. ❋ Archer Butler Hulbert (1903)
The man who is looking at a twin-screw steamer and who is not feeling as he looks at it the facts and the ideas that belong with it, is not seeing it. ❋ Gerald Stanley Lee (1903)
If he will not look with his whole being at a twin-screw steamer, he will not see it. ❋ Gerald Stanley Lee (1903)
So there I sat (we were still at port) and learnt what had originally fired my host's ambition to possess what he was pleased to call a "real, genuine, twin-screw, double-funnelled, copper-bottomed Old Master"; it was to "go one better" than some rival legislator of pictorial proclivities. ❋ Unknown (1902)
It is rather bewildering for a young man to have the captaincy of a twin-screw passenger racer popped at one as carelessly as tossing a peanut to a child. ❋ Holman Day (1900)
