Hmm...
I assumed the ship turbines would be running off boilers - something like a conventional coal powerplant or a PWR nuke reactor
i.e. some thing (oil/diesel/U235) heats water (in the case of the PWR it would be the reactor fuel), water builds up pressure, runs though a turbine which is coupled to a shaft which in turn is coupled to the ship's screw or to a turbo electric generator.
The jet engines turbine would be different because the aviation fuel is burnt directly and run through the turbines.
From what you described above it seems the ship turbines are more like the latter case.
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