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  • passenger ship
    ship
    / Electric drive and integrated machinery plants

    …this is mechanical gearing, but electrical transmission, with a propulsion motor running at a fraction of the speed of a propulsion generator, is an alternative.

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    …this is mechanical gearing, but electrical transmission, with a propulsion motor running at a fraction of the speed of a propulsion generator, is an alternative.

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  • passenger ship
    ship
    / Miscellaneous

    Electric transmission of power between engines and propellers is also common practice, since it allows precise control and an easy diversion of power to another propeller from one that may be jammed by chunks of broken ice.

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    Electric transmission of power between engines and propellers is also common practice, since it allows precise control and an easy diversion of power to another propeller from one that may be jammed by chunks of broken ice.

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