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which depended upon turbine engines. 

 Then quickly a Clyde pleasure steamer 

 demonstrated that the turbine was essen- 

 tially the propelling agent for river work. 

 Followed the ocean liner in the shape of 

 the Carmania of the Cunard and then 

 came those most famous of ocean grey- 

 hounds the Mauretania and the Lusitania, 

 the fastest liners ever built until 1929, with 

 a speed of 26 knots, a speed thought 

 unattainable thirty years ago. 



