Transactions - North East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders Volume 14. North East Coast Shipbuilders
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Author: North East Coast Shipbuilders
Page Count: 116 pages
Published Date: 01 Mar 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
Type: PDF
ISBN: 9781130616064
Download Link: Transactions - North East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders Volume 14
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Author: North East Coast Shipbuilders
Page Count: 116 pages
Published Date: 01 Mar 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
Type: PDF
ISBN: 9781130616064
Download Link: Transactions - North East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders Volume 14
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...that they had only engineering papers. This session, he was glad to say, they were having shipbuilding papers, and this subject of water ballasting was most interesting. In designing a ship they had got to make a compromise and consider what the ship was going to be used for. He thought this double arrangement for water ballast in many trades presented great advantages. Of course they could not "both eat their cake and have it," and if they lost in capacity they had advantages in some other way. All ships were not built for light cargoes; and there were many trades that suggested themselves, such as the ore trade and many others, where capacity was not of moment; but where strength was important, and this appeared to him to be a very strong ship, and had the means of ballasting without too great sacrifice. He thought those questions which had been raised as to the ventilating of the double skin, painting, and so on, were very small. There was not much fear in that respect, and also as to the sweating of cargo referred to. He should think these double skins would be the very thing to avoid sweating. In regard to the general question of water ballasting of ships, and having had a great deal of experience with tank steamers, they were becoming quite familiar with the filling of ships' holds with water, and he thought shipowners and shipbuilders, too, evinced too great a fear of the effect of filling a ship's hold with water. They had met with the objection that if they were to fill a ship's hold with water they must shorten the holds and make the ship less valuable than she otherwise would be. Again, he had to say this referred only to certain trades, and if they were going to carry long rails and various other long articles, perhaps they might feel ...
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