Shipbuilding in iron and steel / a practical treatise . . secured toit by forked arms embracing it and riveted to it. In sailingships, and in paddle-wheel steamers, the stern post, besides beingsecured to tlie outside plating of the ships counter by an angle-iron collar, runs up to the deck above, and is connected to oneor more of the beams. In screw ships, when the weight of the two posts, with theii-connecting pieces, is not too great, the whole mass is forged inone piece. The first stern frame forged in one, at the ThamesIron Works, was for the Peninsular and Oriental Companys steamship Per
Shipbuilding in iron and steel / a practical treatise . . secured toit by forked arms embracing it and riveted to it. In sailingships, and in paddle-wheel steamers, the stern post, besides beingsecured to tlie outside plating of the ships counter by an angle-iron collar, runs up to the deck above, and is connected to oneor more of the beams. In screw ships, when the weight of the two posts, with theii-connecting pieces, is not too great, the whole mass is forged inone piece. The first stern frame forged in one, at the ThamesIron Works, was for the Peninsular and Oriental Companys steamship Pera, and its weight was about 20 tons, while the posts, &c.,of the Turkish frigate Sultan Mahmoud weighed 27 tons, andare supposed to have been the largest single forging ever put intothe hull of a ship—although not the largest existing in a ship, as Chap. IV. Stern Posts. 59 will be seen presently when the stern posts of the Northumberlandare described. In Fig. 61 the arrangements and connections of the stern posts ELEVATION PLAN or TOP Or POSTS. n. SECTION AT C. SECTION AT F.
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