An item referred to the magazine Marine Rundschau reporting that the American engineer Lewis Nixon designed a destroyer able to cross the Atlantic Ocean in four days.(1) Fitted out with five screws each driven by a 6.000 hp explosion engine was her maximum speed 33 miles. With a displacement of 2.000 tons was her range 16.000 (economical speed)-3.000 (speed 30 miles) miles.
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1. Lewis Nixon I (7 April 1861 Leesburg, Virginia -23 September 1940 Long Branch, New Jersey), a naval architect who designed in his time the first modern battleships for the US Navy and involved in the building of her first modern submarines.
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1. Lewis Nixon I (7 April 1861 Leesburg, Virginia -23 September 1940 Long Branch, New Jersey), a naval architect who designed in his time the first modern battleships for the US Navy and involved in the building of her first modern submarines.
