The voyage of the Why not?' in the Antarctic; the journal of the second French South polar expedition, 1908-1910 . :— Length at water lino ..... 40 metres Beam . . . . 9- 20 metres Depth of keel . . . 5 10 metres Load water-draught . . . 430 metres Her rigging was that of a three-masted barque, and hermasts, sturdy but short, had been selected at heavy expenseamong the finest specimens in Brest Arsenal. In the caseof the wooden scantlings as of the anchors and chains, every-thing was made about three times as strong as on an ordinaryship of the same tonnage. The powerful ribs were broughtvery
The voyage of the Why not?' in the Antarctic; the journal of the second French South polar expedition, 1908-1910 . :— Length at water lino ..... 40 metres Beam . . . . 9- 20 metres Depth of keel . . . 5 10 metres Load water-draught . . . 430 metres Her rigging was that of a three-masted barque, and hermasts, sturdy but short, had been selected at heavy expenseamong the finest specimens in Brest Arsenal. In the caseof the wooden scantlings as of the anchors and chains, every-thing was made about three times as strong as on an ordinaryship of the same tonnage. The powerful ribs were broughtvery close together, and at the bow as also in the bilge thespaces between the timbers were tilled in with chocks of very thick plankings covered the ribs, being themselvesprotected against the wear and tear of the ice by an exteriorsheathing. An interior planking, caulked and coal-tarred,made a kind of extra hull inside. The whole vessel, exceptthat the bilge was of elm, was built of the best oak. On every side she was strengthened by special services. 1 The French Lloyds — The Pourquoi-Pas ?s Rig.
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