Shipbuilding in iron and steel / a practical treatise . . SECTION AT rta. Fig. 229. Chap. XV. Miscellaneous Details. 289 zontal plate to which the bearing is bolted, together with theirconnecting angle-irons; as the keelson c and the flat are con-tinuous throughout the shaft-passage. It may be added that theincreased breadth of the fore end of the shaft-passage, shown inthe plan, is given in order to make room for the watertight doorby which admission is obtained to the passage from the engine-room ; and that the bearer / is the aftermost one in the en-gine-room. It will be obvious that the be
Shipbuilding in iron and steel / a practical treatise . . SECTION AT rta. Fig. 229. Chap. XV. Miscellaneous Details. 289 zontal plate to which the bearing is bolted, together with theirconnecting angle-irons; as the keelson c and the flat are con-tinuous throughout the shaft-passage. It may be added that theincreased breadth of the fore end of the shaft-passage, shown inthe plan, is given in order to make room for the watertight doorby which admission is obtained to the passage from the engine-room ; and that the bearer / is the aftermost one in the en-gine-room. It will be obvious that the bearers similar to / areuseful not only in supporting the engines and boilers, but ingiving great transverse strength to the ship at a part where thetransverse tie of the decks is seriously reduced. This feature ofconstruction is of especial importance in small ships in which thelower deck is entirely discontinued in wake of engines and thrust bearers of small screw-steamers are, of course, ofa very much simpler and lighter character, but in most cases thefra
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