Transactions of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects, Volume 21Royal Institution of Naval Architects., 1880 - Naval architecture List of members in each volume. |
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Admiral Admiralty angle annealing anthracite armour Barnaby Bellerophon BENJAMIN MARTELL boats boiler breadth built bulkheads cargo carried cent centre coal construction curve Denny depth Ditto Ditto double bottom draught elongation engines experiments feet forecastle frames Gentlemen girders give grain Gravesend guns important inner bottom Institution of Naval iron John JOHN SCOTT RUSSELL Jullanar keel keelson length Lloyd's Lloyd's Register loaded longitudinal system Lord Hampton Martell material mean Member of Council metacentric height midship-section Naval Architects ordinary paddle steamers Paper poop President question raised quarter deck Ravenhill resistance Rose of Devon Royal Navy sailing Scott Russell screw shearing ship shipbuilding shot side speed square inch stability steam steamers steel plates strain surface Taeping tensile strength tests tiers of beams tonnage tons per square transverse vessel Vice-President water ballast wave weight William William Symonds yacht
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Page 65 - One fatal remembrance, one sorrow that throws, Its bleak shade alike o'er our joys and our woes, To which life nothing darker or brighter can bring, For which joy has no balm and affliction no sting...
Page xv - It shall be the duty of the Secretary, under the direction of the Council, to conduct the correspondence of the Institution ; to attend all meetings of the Institution, and of the Council, and of Committees ; to take minutes of the proceedings of such meetings ; to read the minutes of the preceding...
Page 28 - Except where the between decks are laid aft, the after one may extend only to lower deck, and so placed that in loading the middle compartment will be entirely filled and the end ones left to trim the vessel. If the end compartments are not entirely filled care must be taken that the cargo be properly covered and secured on top to prevent shifting.
Page 25 - Masts and water tanks, either of wood or iron, must be properly cased to prevent damage from leakage. 14th. Vessels being loaded with over 12,000 bushels of grain in bulk must have one intermediate partition or bulkhead, so that no bin shall contain over 12,000 bushels.
Page 208 - I am ready for my part to go further than the French architects have gone, and build the entire vessel, bottom plates and all, of steel ; but I know that at present the undertaking will involve an immense amount of anxiety and care.
Page xviii - Appendix to the person proposed to be expelled, advising him to withdraw from the Institution. If that advice be followed, no entry on the minutes, nor any public discussion on the subject, shall be permitted ; but if that advice be not followed, nor a - satisfactory explanation given, the Council shall call a Special General Meeting of Members...
Page 214 - Fahrenheit, must stand bending in a press to a curve of which the inner radius is one and a half times the thickness of the plates tested.
Page 214 - The ductility of every plate is to be ascertained by the application of one or both of these tests to the shearings, or by bending them cold by the hammer on the contractor's premises, and at hi? expense. 5. All plates to be free from lamination and injurious surface defects.
Page 207 - This experience has shown clearly the immense superiority of steel over iron. There is little doubt that had the Rotomahana been of iron, such a rent would have been made in her that she would have filled in a few minutes.
Page 118 - ... cutting her way deeper into the concrete and planking of the Wharf, until she assumed the position represented in the Drawing, and at that period the distance measured from the face of the Wharf to the point of contact of the Vessel and the surface of the Water was...