Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. SINTEF has now designed and manufactured new measuring equipment for model testing of contra-rotating propellers. This could be good ...

From early steamships to modern azipods, this breaks down the hydrodynamic, mechanical, and safety reasons ships push rather than pull through the water, and why placing the propeller ahead of the ...

Naval Group manufactured a new-generation propeller via a metal 3D printing process, mounted on a tripartite minehunter.This propeller is 2.5-m in diameter, supported by five 200-kg blades. The ...

Arguably there is no more important piece of the vessel’s drive train than the propeller. If propeller geometry is out of whack, either from inaccurate design or a strike in the water, the results, if ...

At the very crux of engineering is the desire to problem-solve, optimize, and squeeze out every bit of efficiency possible from the system being built. Aircraft design and aeronautical engineering ...

OSLO, March 10 - The global shipping industry can cut carbon emissions substantially with simple methods such as polishing propellers regularly and steaming more slowly between ports, Norwegian ship ...

Considered to be the last great French merchant Ship, the Belem is an impressive three-mast Vessel reaching 34 metres (112 ft) tall and 58 metres (90 ft) long. As well as possessing an impressive 22 ...

Titanic survivor Major Frank Winnold Prentice recounted his harrowing survival of the Titanic crash and sinking in a 1979 interview Prentice was just 23 when he jumped from the boat’s stern as it sank ...