Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company
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| Type | Public |
|---|---|
| Fate | Acquired |
| Successor | C. A. Parsons and Company |
| Founded | 1897 |
| Headquarters | Newcastle upon Tyne, UK |
| Industry | Engineering |
Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company was a British engineering company based in Wallsend, North England, on the River Tyne.
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The company was founded by Charles Algernon Parsons in 1897 with £500,000 of capital, and specialised in building the steam turbine engines that he had invented for naval use.[1] The first ship to use a Parsons propulsion system was the Turbinia.[2]
The Royal Navy's first turbine powered battleship, HMS Dreadnought, used turbines made by Parsons and the 31,000 ton Cunard express passenger liners Mauretania and Lusitania were equipped with 73,000 horsepower (54,000 kW) turbine engines made by Parsons.
The Invincible class battlecruisers all used propulsion systems manufactured by the company. The last ship to use a Parsons propulsion system was HMS Glamorgan launched in 1964.[2]
The company was absorbed into C. A. Parsons and Company and survives in the Heaton area of Newcastle as part of Siemens, a German industrial conglomerate.
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