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 357
cular compartment, thevalves to suctions for other compartments can be closed by the valvesshown. A well, similar to that just described for the engine room, is usuallyarranged at the after end of the after-hold space into Avhich bilge drainagefinds its way. A steam pump suction is therefore… … which may be connectedup to the hold well suctionby a valve box somewhatsimilar to that illustratedin fig. 175, and which ismanipulated from the in-side of the tunnel. A sounding pipe shouldbe fitted on each side ofall ballast tanks with thenecessary doubling plateunder each, as previouslypointed…
Naval architecture · Ships, Iron and steel
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