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| rdfs:label | - Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company
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| rdfs:comment | - The company was founded by Charles Algernon Parsons in 1897 with £500,000 of capital, and specialised in building the steam turbine engines that he had invented for naval use. The first ship to use a Parsons propulsion system was the Turbinia, launched in 1894; the successful demonstration of this vessel led to the setting up the company and the subsequent construction of the engines for the first two turbine-powered destroyers for the Navy, HMS Viper and HMS Cobra, which were launched in 1899. Although both these vessels came to grief, for reasons not connected with the engines, the Admiralty was convinced of the advantages offered by turbine powered vessels.
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| abstract | - The company was founded by Charles Algernon Parsons in 1897 with £500,000 of capital, and specialised in building the steam turbine engines that he had invented for naval use. The first ship to use a Parsons propulsion system was the Turbinia, launched in 1894; the successful demonstration of this vessel led to the setting up the company and the subsequent construction of the engines for the first two turbine-powered destroyers for the Navy, HMS Viper and HMS Cobra, which were launched in 1899. Although both these vessels came to grief, for reasons not connected with the engines, the Admiralty was convinced of the advantages offered by turbine powered vessels. The Royal Navy's first turbine powered battleship, HMS Dreadnought, used turbines made by Parsons and the 31,000 ton Cunard express passenger liners Mauretania and Lusitania were equipped with horsepower (kW) turbine engines made by Parsons. The Royal Navy, along with the Royal Canadian Navy, and Royal Australian Navy, used Parsons turbines on their Tribal class destroyers. The Invincible class battlecruisers all used propulsion systems manufactured by the company. The last ship to use a Parsons propulsion system was HMS Glamorgan launched in 1964. The company was absorbed into C. A. Parsons and Company and survives in the Heaton area of Newcastle, England as part of Siemens, a German industrial conglomerate.
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