A manual of naval architecture. For the use of officers of the Royal Navy, officers of the Mercantile Marine, shipbuilders, shipowners, and yachtsmen (1889)
White, W. H. (William Henry), Sir, 1845-1913 · London, J. Murray · leaf 367
ships covered 346 NAVAL ARCHITECTURE. CHAP. IX. witli plating. These complete or partial iron or steel decks, fittedunder the wood planking, are most valuable additions to thestructural strength, and have corrected weaknesses formerly toocommon in the upper parts of iron ships. Complete iron… … has been provided by a very unusual construction of the upperdfck. This is a cellular structure formed by two strong ironskins worked above and below deep girders running longitu-dinally. Besides the unusually strong plating, the strength of thegirders in this ship therefore comes into play against…
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