Steel ships, their construction and maintenance : a manual for shipbuilders, ship superintendents, students, and marine engineers (1901)
Walton, Thomas · London : Charles Griffin & Co. ; Philadelphia : Lippincott · leaf 236
s as will give the easiest access to every cell orcompartment in the tank. At least one manhole should therefore be cut inevery solid floor plate between the longitudinal girders, whether intercostalor continuous, and, at intervals, manholes should be cut in the side girdersalso; but as the centre… … Fig. 85.—Cellular Double Bottom, constructed with Solid Floors upon alternateframes, and Bracket Plates upon intermediate frames, as shown in this sketch. Indeed, in some vessels the centre through-plate is perfectly watertight,for part, if not for its whole length. Fore and After Peak Tanks (see…
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