How Wooden Ships Are Built: A Practical Treatise On Modern American Wooden Ship Construction, With A Supplement On Laying Off Wooden Vessels
- Author(s): H. Cole Estep
- Category: Transportation and Vehicles
- Publisher: Cleveland, O., The Penton Publishing Company
- Publish year: 1918
- ISBN: 9678000005564
- Number of Pages: 128
Wooden shipbuilding was a lost art which the gods of war decreed must be revived. When the European war broke out in 1914, there were over forty-six and a half million tons of merchant steamers afloat. Most of them were steel cargo vessels suitable for overseas trade. As nearly as can be estimated, the submarines accounted for nearly onefifth of this tonnage up to Jan. 1, 1918. A tremendous revival of shipbuilding the world over has been the natural reaction to this situation.
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Copyright
Preface
Contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
CHAPTER I Typical Methods of Construction
CHAPTER II Strength and Characteristics of Ship Timbers
CHAPTER III Layout ana Equipment of Wooden Shipbuilding Plants
CHAPTER IV Details of Different Types of Wooden Vessels
CHAPTER V Details of Frame and Keel Construction
CHAPTER VI Methods of Framing Forward End of Ship
CHAPTER VII Framing the After End of the Ship
CHAPTER VIII Planking, Keelson and Ceiling Construction
CHAPTER IX Construction of Hold Bracing and Deck Elements
CHAPTER X Spars, Rudders, Shaft Logs and Engine Beds
CHAPTER I Fundamental Propositions
CHAPTER II Fairing the Lines
Index