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Rolls-Royce Conway

Produced in response to an Admiralty contract
for a coastal-craft engine with good cruising
economy, the RM60, although based on
aeroengine philosophy, was designed from
the first as a marine gas turbine. Two RM60s
went to sea in 1953 in the former steam
Rolls-Royce RM60 gunboat HMS Grey Goose, the world's first
warship to be powered solely by gas turbines.