Machinery
There were four shafts, each one driven directly by a Parsons turbine. Steam was provided by eighteen Babcock boilers with an operating pressure of 235 pounds per square inch (PSI). The designed shaft horse power (SHP) was 23,000, and the design maximum speed was 20.75 knots. Maximum fuel load was 2,648 tons of coal and 840 tons of oil; the radius of action was 4,230 nautical miles at eighteen knots, burning coal with oil sprayed onto it, and 5,720 nautical miles at ten knots, also using a fuel mixture. The design of boiler in use did not permit the burning of oil as sole fuel.
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