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Electric motor. Speed. 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) Endurance. 10 hours. Capacity. 18 passengers. The Duffy-Herreshoff DH30 watertaxi is an 18-person hydrogen fueled passenger ship, power-assisted by an electric motor that gets its electricity from a fuel cell. The watertaxi debuted on October 20, 2003 in San Francisco.
The Puritan was built by the Electric Boat Company in 1930. The plans for the schooner were originally presented to Edward W. Brown by naval architect John Alden in 1929. The ship was completed in 1931 and was the only pleasure boat built by the Electric Boat Company during that period due to the beginning of the Great Depression.
An electric boat is a powered watercraft driven by electric motors, which are powered by either on-board battery packs, solar panels or generators. [1] While a significant majority of water vessels are powered by diesel engines, with sail power and gasoline engines also popular, boats powered by electricity have been used for over 120 years.
General Dynamics Electric Boat [2] ( GDEB) is a subsidiary of General Dynamics Corporation. It has been the primary builder of submarines for the United States Navy for more than 100 years. The company's main facilities are a shipyard in Groton, Connecticut, a hull-fabrication and outfitting facility in Quonset Point, Rhode Island, and a design ...
General Dynamics traces its ancestry to John Philip Holland's Holland Torpedo Boat Company. [5] In 1899, Isaac Rice bought the company from Holland and renamed it Electric Boat Company. [6] Electric Boat was responsible for developing the U.S. Navy's first modern submarines, which were purchased by the Navy in 1900. [7]
SS Normandie was a French ocean liner built in Saint-Nazaire, France, for the French Line Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (CGT). She entered service in 1935 as the largest and fastest passenger ship afloat, crossing the Atlantic in a record 4.14 days, and remains the most powerful steam turbo-electric-propelled passenger ship ever built.
Electric Launch Company. An Elco Electric Launch on Raquette Lake in the Adirondacks. The Electric Launch Company, later renamed Elco Motor Yachts (" Elco "), is an American boat building and electric motor company that has operated from 1893 to 1949 and from 1987 to the present. [1] [2]
The first three boats in name sequence, the S-1, S-2, and S-3, were prototypes authorized in Fiscal Year 1918 and were built to the same specifications: S-1 designed by Electric Boat, S-2 by Lake, and S-3 by the Bureau of Construction and Repair (BuC&R) (later Bureau of Ships). [3] The Electric Boat and BuC&R designs were put into series ...