Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company was a British engineering company based in Wallsend, North East England, on the River Tyne. 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. The first ship to use a Parsons propulsion system was "Turbinia", launched in 1894; the successful demonstration of this vessel led to the creation of the company and the subsequent construction of the engines for the first two turbine-powered destroyers for the Navy, and , launched
RMS Connaught (1897) 13:45, submarine "U-48" fired a torpedo which exploded aft on the starboard side. The ship's wirless was disabled, so an S.O.S. could not be sent. 15 minutes later, a second torpedo struck amidships on the port side. Three crewmen having been killed, the rest of the crew took to the lifeboats. "Connaught" sank within four minutes of the second torpedo striking. The sinking occurred in the English Channel about south of the Light Vessel "Owers". Those lost in the sinking were: RMS Connaught (1897) RMS "Connaught" was a steamship built in 1897 and operated by the City of Dublin Steam