Lake ship yard methods of steel ship construction (1907)
Curr, Robert · Cleveland : The Marine review · leaf 134
s are on the stiffeners arebolted up on the opposite sideafter which the beams andbrackets are bolted to thestiffeners. Before rivetingthe sides stout timbers arebolted to the plating length-wise which keeps the housenice and fair. The top of the house is allmarked from the ship afterthe beams are… … /-7p. /■36, CHAPTER X MAST MAKING Fig. 139 shows A, the fore, and B, main mast, of the usual con-struction on the great lakes. The fore mast is 72 ft. long and themain mast 69 ft. The diameters at the heels are 19 inches, taperingto 8>4 inches at the head. The top masts are 10 ft. long and are…
Naval architecture · Ships, Iron and steel
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