Shipbuilding in iron and steel / a practical treatise . . Fig. 49. The manner in which the stems of the five Indian troop-shipsare formed and connected to the keels is shown in Fig. 50. Itwill be remembered that these vessels are built with doubleflat-plate keels, a central water-tiglit through-keel or keelson, andan inner bottom, hke the Bellerophon. The stem is a commonrabbeted stem, as shown in the sections B,C, and is connected tothe keelson-plate by means of a pair of angle-irons screwed on to it,and receiving the kpelson-plate between, as shown at D and at Abaft this it is forked, an
Shipbuilding in iron and steel / a practical treatise . . Fig. 49. The manner in which the stems of the five Indian troop-shipsare formed and connected to the keels is shown in Fig. 50. Itwill be remembered that these vessels are built with doubleflat-plate keels, a central water-tiglit through-keel or keelson, andan inner bottom, hke the Bellerophon. The stem is a commonrabbeted stem, as shown in the sections B,C, and is connected tothe keelson-plate by means of a pair of angle-irons screwed on to it,and receiving the kpelson-plate between, as shown at D and at Abaft this it is forked, and embraces the vertical flanges of themain keel angle-irons as shown in the section at F, and in the F, and at E also, the flat keel-plates are both worked under the Chap. Ill On Stems. 51 heel of the stem, but before the point where the section E is takenthey are stopped in succession, the one stopping altogether, and theother rising up into the rabbet, as shown at D, and as will be shownwith greater particularity presently, in reference to the stems ofother ships similarly connected. The manner in which the stem of a large iron-clad frigate isformed and connected to a flat-plate keel is shown in Figs. 51 and 52,
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