propeller-shaft

Deepsea Explorer was sluggish and heavy now in the water, filling from the ragged hole that had been her starboard propeller-shaft tunnel and the seams that had failed forward.

Rescue Ferrets at Sea Richard Bach 2002

My heels were dragging on sand now and I kicked upwards with one foot and hooked it sideways and felt nothing and kicked again and got it lodged across a brake rod but it slipped off and I tried the other foot, feeling for a cross-member and not finding one, trying again and hitting the open propeller-shaft and letting it drop back to the roadway.

The Sinkiang Executive Hall, Adam 1978

Whether repairing a broken propeller-shaft two or three scores of tons in weight, the most intricate machinery, or the most delicate electric mechanism, he was equally at home and sure in his work; in fact nothing seemed to come amiss to him.

To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story Mark Wicks

"Guess how fast we're making it now?" cried John, one eye on the dial which connected with the propeller-shaft.

Around the World in Ten Days Chelsea Curtis Fraser

Her propeller-shaft was 160 feet long, with a screw propeller at one end 24 feet in diameter.

Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 Various

The bombs came so close that the ship was almost lifted out of the water, and the cradles holding her propeller-shaft in place were smashed.

Experience on an Atlantic Convoy 1942

Now the propeller-shaft of industrial society is fractured, our ship is wallowing in the trough of the seas, and the men who should put things right for us do not even know that it is the main shaft on which they should concentrate.

Waiting for Daylight 1915

Its motive power came from seven men turning cranks attached to the propeller-shaft.

Our Navy in the War Lawrence Perry 1914

Hung between the rods, being suspended by piano wires as in a spider-web, was the motor, basket, and propeller-shaft.

Stories of Inventors The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers Russell Doubleday 1910

Aft of the steering-wheel was the gasoline motor, connected with the propeller-shaft and also with the driving-wheels; it was so arranged that either could be thrown out of gear or both operated at once.

Stories of Inventors The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers Russell Doubleday 1910