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IN March 1839, the historic little screw-driven vessel S.S. Archimedes began her trials in the River Thames. A month or two later she visited Portsmouth, and afterwards made voyages around the coasts of Great Britain and to Holland and Portugal. She was the first vessel to demonstrate effectively the suitability of the screw for oceangoing ships and she ushered in the revolution which led to the abandonment of paddle-wheel propulsion in the ships of both the Royal Navy and the Mercantile Marine.
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The S.S. Archimedes. Nature 143, 487 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143487a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/143487a0