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Ship-building in iron and wood (1863)

Murray, Andrew, 1813-1872, Murray, Robert. Steam-ships, Creuze, Augustin Francis Bullock, 1800-1852 · Edinburgh : A. and C. Black · leaf 117

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of the vessel, and the keelson beplaced upon the top of the floors, following the same ar-rangement as in wooden vessels. In the latter case theside-plates of the keelson should be the w hole depth of thefloors, in addition to the height of the keelson above them,a space for each frame being cut… … Fie. «?- angle-irons of the keelson lying on the floors, and attachedto them as they pass, stiffen them, and will tend to preventtheir buckling or bending sideways when a great strainfrom the outside is brought upon them. Where the floors abut on each side of the centre keelson,there is no reason…

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