Thread: A log of my updates on my '32 Brookville highboy

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I leased on with Pirkle Refrigerated Freight back in the early 80's. Same company?

What is the devise?

The top engine looks like a two stroke. The last container ship I served on had a 9 cylinder Wartsila-Sulzer diesel. Direct drive to prop, produced around 65,000 hp at 118 rpm. For astern would stop the engine, engineers would change valve timing and the engine would be re-started in reverse, not a fast process. The last vessel I worked on was a diesel-electric, using (7) 4.6 MW medium speed Cat gen-sets for a total of 32 MW. Hotel and drilling loads (it was a drill ship) was about 1 MW, the rest was available for holding position in winds and currents. I had (6) 5,000 hp electric thrusters. If I have to use most all of it (white knuckle time) I was burning about 1,000 gallons of diesel per hour. Here is one of the (7) 4.6 MW gen-sets.