Lake ship yard methods of steel ship construction (1907)
Curr, Robert · Cleveland : The Marine review · leaf 180
by Knox & Elliot, of Cleveland, O., and I was surprised to STEEL SHIP CONSTRUCTION 169 see 2,000 tons of material laid out with a steel tape, and the class ofwork would put the ship builders to shame. I tested every rivet inthe .building and only found half a dozen slightly jarred rivets in… … Fig. 186. Sept. 24, 1904. For erecting the steel of a building of this size threemonths is considered the time. Fig. 184 shows the building nearlycompleted April 17, 1905. REPAIRING VESSELS Some very large repairs have been done on the lakes with economyand despatch. Fig. 185 shows the starboard…
Naval architecture · Ships, Iron and steel
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