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BATEAU SEMP [1 record]

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Record 1 1994-01-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electric Motors
  • Ship and Boat Parts
CONT

The SEMP ship Yamato 1 is packed with the huge power and refrigeration systems needed to run it. A ten-man crew squeezes into a small cockpit at the front. Despite these limitations, the Japanese are hoping that SEMP systems will become smaller and more powerful leading to a new generation of fast passenger ferries and cargo ships. Unlike today's ships they will be highly manoeuvrable: by reversing the polarity of both thrusters, a SEMP ship should be able to come rapidly to a halt. Reversing just one drive would make it turn on a yen. It would also be eerily quiet. This has prompted the America's IEEE to try to fit SEMP drives into a submarine - echoes, as it were, of the "caterpillar drive" used by the silent submarine in the film "The Hunt for Red October".

Key term(s)
  • SEMP submarine

French

Domaine(s)
  • Moteurs électriques
  • Parties des bateaux

Spanish

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