Published accounts give conflicting figures for Triton's propulsion, so a listed specification should not be treated as a complete statement of her capability. The 45,000-shaft-horsepower figure is checked against its cited book, while separate reactor and Operation Sandblast accounts supply other engineering details. The normal arrangement sent steam from the forward reactor to the forward engine room and from the after reactor to the after engine room. Cross-connections allowed the steam plants to support one another. Checking the underlying public sources establishes where a figure came from while leaving the differences between published specifications visible.
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Public-source caveats around Triton's reactor data
Conflicting published power figures accompany a steam arrangement in which each reactor normally served its own engine room, with cross-connections available.