The History of North Atlantic steam navigation with some account of early ships and shipowners (1896)
Fry, Henry · New York : C. Scribner's sons · leaf 194
THE WHITE STAR LINE. 173 This plan, though not quite as sightly, is much stronger than theold plan. The decks are of steel, covered with wood. In additionto ten transverse bulkheads they have a longitudinal bulkhead, … which divides the engine-room in two, the great advantages olwhich have been pointed cut in a previous chapter. The bracketsused to support the ends of the screw-shafts were dispensed with,another novelty, the shafts being carried out in what are really 174 THE HISTOR y OF NOR TH A TLANTIC STEAM NA…
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