Measurement of vessels for the Panama canal (1913)
Johnson, Emory R. (Emory Richard), 1864-1950, United States. War Dept · Washington, Govt. Print. Off. · leaf 435
case where there is an inner sheathing or ceiling, the average thickness of thissheathing is deducted. When the inner bottom sheathing is built on scantlings thethickness of these scantlings is not deducted in either Englandor Germany. When there is a double bottom with a roof-like inner… … Fig. 2. Fig. 8. MEAStjKEMENT OF VESSELS FOE PANAMA CANAL. 359 FRANCE. Where the bottom line isirregular, they substitute for it,in France, an imaginary bot-tom Line formed by prolongingthe highest line of the doublebottom until it intersects theline of the frames at the ex-tremities of the ship.…
