twin-screw

The screeeing sound of the twin-screw fish was enough to raise the hairs on your neck.

Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986

The boat is twin-screw, and the principal dimensions are:

Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs

The three new twin-screw gunboats built on the Thames, besides other ship-work reconstruction, were put together near Abadia, a village above the Fifth Cataract and north of Berber.

Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh

The twin-screw gunboat "Melik" also steamed up the river a few miles, but neither quest resulted in adding much to the information already possessed as to the Khalifa's intentions and exact whereabouts.

Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh

Admiralty-designed twin-screw steamers, "Sheikh" "Sultan" and "Melik," were not as fast as had been expected; they could not tow any reasonably big load, and, though they were stuffed with many novelties, few of the innovations were of the least practical value.

Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh

These vessels could easily have carried many more hands; indeed, the newest type of Nile men-o'-war, the twin-screw steamers, were built to convey a thousand soldiers.

Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh

Duneen_, although a twin-screw vessel, was not of more than 5,000 tons burden, having been built as a mail carrier for distant ports, in which speed was regarded as the important element in her construction.

The Boy Volunteers with the Submarine Fleet Kenneth Ward

The new twin-screw gunboats "Sultan" and "Sheik" had nine days 'rations for troops put aboard.

Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh

The town is fifteen days in a twin-screw steamer from Pará, some 2,500 miles.

Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure 1923

There were side-wheelers, awkwardly constructed boats with sprawling paddles, screw propellers, and twin-screw craft; ferryboats, tugs, steam yachts, and ocean liners.

Steve and the Steam Engine Sara Ware Bassett 1920