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A ship may have several engines that do different jobs. These might include generating electricity, running refrigeration, producing hydraulic pressure or running pumps.

The main engine on a ship is the engine used to drive the propellers. Sometimes a ship may have more than one propulsive engine but it would be called main engine number....

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