The bronze propeller was salvage by unknown persons between 1964 and 1970.
About six thirty, the final gavel rang down on a massive bronze propeller and the auction was over.
Her propeller was the second bronze propeller ever built.
One of the twenty-foot diameter, thirty-ton, four-bladed bronze propellers was salvaged in 1968.
He also developed a new alloy, solving the problem of the erosion of warships' bronze propellers.
The pump relied on a propeller to move the water, and it was this 12-foot-diameter bronze propeller that broke in the 1960's.
The Konovalov's bronze propeller turned more quickly.
Only the control planes on the stern remained the same, as did two bronze propellers rucked neatly under the sleek hull.
Instantly the bronze propellers of the earth man's flagship vanished in thin air together with numerous fittings and parts above decks.
Each propeller is driven by a double wound 3-phase synchronous motor with 4-bladed fixed-pitch bronze propellers.