 | Industrial arts - 1815 - 438 pages
...timbers. These fillings occasion no consumption of useful timber, as one-fourth of the produce of" a slab, and other offal now sold as fathom wood, would...be said, the thickness of the bottom from four, or four and a half, (the usual thickness of the plank,) to about sixteen inches, thereby lessening very... | |
 | Repertory of arts, manufactures and agriculture - 1815 - 442 pages
...timbers. These fillings occasion no consumption of useful timber, as one-fourth of the produce of a slab, and other offal now sold as fathom wood, would...be said, the thickness of the bottom from four, or four and a half, (the usual thickness of the plank,) to about sixteen inches, thereby lessening very... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1815 - 572 pages
...a greater durability, by preventing the decay of the timbers ; and, as connected with this object, to preserve the health of the crew from the effects of the impure air arising from the filth which collects in certain parts of a ship constructed on the old principle, and which accelerates its decay.... | |
 | Charles Frederick Partington - Shipbuilding - 1826 - 164 pages
...head to stern, and within a few feet of the greatest draught of water, one compact and water tight mass of timber ; so that were any of the outer planking...facilitate the stoppage of any leak, and lastly, to I New System, increase, as it may be said, the thickness of the bottom from four or four and a half,... | |
 | Stephen Bleecker Luce - Navigation - 1866 - 874 pages
...a sufficient quantity for the consumption of the whole navy. The advantages obtained by filling int the openings are these ; — to add to the strength and durability of the fabric ; to pre• The writer of this article thus concludes his brief description of Launching : "Among the ancients,... | |
 | Richard Worsam Meade - Naval architecture - 1869 - 510 pages
...fillings occasion no consumption of useful timber, as onefourth of the produce of slab and other offal wood would supply a sufficient quantity for the consumption...be said, the thickness of the bottom from four or four and a half (the usual thickness of the plank) to about sixteen inches, thereby lessening very... | |
 | Theodore Delavan Wilson - Naval architecture - 1873 - 476 pages
...knee comes off a frame. The advantages obtained by filling in the spaces between the floor-timbers are these : — To add to the strength and durability...facilitate the stoppage of any leak; and lastly to increase the thickness of the bottom, thereby lessening very considerably the danger to be apprehended from... | |
 | Books - 1815 - 594 pages
...a greater durability, by preventing the decay of the timbers ; and, as connected with this object, to preserve the health of the crew from the effects of the impure air arising from the filth which collects in certain parts of a ship constructed on the old principle, and which accelerates its decay.... | |
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These fillings occasion no consumption of useful timber, as one-fourth of the produce of a slab, and other offal now sold as fathom wood, would supply a sufficient quantity for the consumption of the whole navy. • « The advantages obtained by filling... 