What is "propeller shafts"

Usage examples of "propeller shafts".

Wartime lipstick is necessarily cobbled together from whatever tailings and gristle were left over once all of the good stuff was used to coat propeller shafts.

Powered by eight massive boilers creating superheated steam, her four Westinghouse-geared turbines could put out 240,000 horsepower, 60,000 for each of her four propeller shafts, and drive her through the water just under fifty miles an hour.

Rick called to Professor Gordon, who was inspecting the packing of one of the propeller shafts.

The stern appeared attached to the keel by only the propeller shafts.

If both propeller shafts were going to shear, they were going to shear.

Bad first reports: three propeller shafts stopped, communication and power failing, water and oil flooding on C and Ddecks.

Powered by eight massive boilers creating superheated steam, her four Westinghouse-geared turbines could put out 240,000 horsepower or 60,000 for each of her four propeller shafts, and could drive her through the water at more than fifty miles an hour.

As the propeller gave, the engine raced wildly, the broken propeller shafts dragging the plane into the water like a motorboat screw.

Powered by eight massive boilers creatingsuperheated steam, her four Westinghouse-geared turbines could put out240,000 horsepower or 60,000 for each of her four propeller shafts, andcould drive her through the water at more than fifty miles an hour.

The blast from the first Sea Eagle engulfed the ship's stem, sending smoke and flame belching from the stem, the concussion warping two of KremTs propeller shafts.

The rear end of the hull was lifted from the water and the motors raced to test the propeller shafts.

The propeller shafts were bent and the propellers themselves covered with a crusty growth.

The jet had dropped two bombs: one had exploded on the sub's stern, damaging its propeller shafts, the other had slammed into the huge forward bulkhead where nearly a battalion of Norse troops was preparing to disembark from the ship and into the landing crafts.

The jet had dropped two bombs one had exploded on the sub's stern, damaging its propeller shafts, the other had slammed into the huge forward bulkhead where nearly a battalion of Norse troops was preparing to disembark from the ship and into the landing crafts.

Sitting side by side, their propeller shafts vanishing into the bilge, a pair of Sterling 420 h.