General Electric LM1600

The General Electric LM1600 is a marine and industrial gas turbine built by GE Aviation, now GE Aerospace, and derived from the F404 military turbofan that powers fighter aircraft. It is a simple-cycle, two-shaft machine in which a gas generator taken from the aircraft engine feeds a separate power turbine that drives the load. GE's marine data sheet rates it at 20,000 shaft horsepower, about 14,920 kilowatts, with a thermal efficiency of 37 percent, and describes a ten-stage compressor with a 22 to 1 pressure ratio and a two-stage air-cooled high-pressure turbine. Its marine uses were fast ferries and high-speed yachts, including the Stena Voyager and Stena Explorer ferries and the vessel Destriero, and it also served in stationary industrial plants such as Dusty Lake Station. In the Transport Atlas it stands among the marine aeroderivatives that carried jet-engine technology to sea.