rying much These barges have given good satisfaction to the owners and heavier machinery. are said to hold about 80 tons more coal than the wooden Now let us consider a steel open “boat” or “barge” for the barge of the same dimensions and draft. transportation of coal. The same principle is carried… … to make the internal framing sufficiently strong to care for construction—but here we have to depend more on the sides of the general longitudinal stresses, and also for those that the boat or barge acting as the backbone or longitudinal girder— are local. The conditions of service met with in…
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