PRACTICAL SHIPBUILDING A: A MANUAL FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF SEA-GOING MERCHANT SHIPS AND WAR-SHIPS
Written by G. De Rooij
Published by N.V. De Technische Uitgeverij H. Stam-Haarlem
in 1953
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- ENGINEERING
- SHIP BUILDING
- MARITIME
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PRACTICAL SHIPBUILDING A: A MANUAL FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF SEA-GOING MERCHANT SHIPS AND WAR-SHIPS
Written by G. De Rooij.
Stock no. 1828537
1st.
1953.
Hardback.
Large format.
Very good condition.
Ships and Marine Engines series Volume III A. Large format. Blue cloth boards, gilt titles. B/w scale drawings/diagrams throughout, many folding diagrams to rear. Boards scuffed and lightly worn, lower corners bumped. Text block browned. Minor lower corner crease to first couple of sections. Some folding plates strengthened on the plain side of the fold with strong tape. Contents are clean.
Front cover
Contents
- CHAPTER I - GENERAL
- Introduction
- Classification
- Principal Dimensions as Prescribed by the Classification Societies
- Numerals of the Classification Societies
- Machining of Materials
- Welding and Welded Joints
- Rivets and Riveted Joints
- CHAPTER II - THE SHIP's HULL
- The Keel
- Keelsons (Single-Bottomed Vessels)
- Floors (Single-Bottomed Vessels)
- Frames
- Shell Plating
- Side Stiffeners
- Panting Arrangement and Ice-Doubling
- Double Bottom
- Decks
- Bulkheads
- Pillars and Girders
- Stems and Stern Posts
- Rudder and its Accessories
- Propeller-Shaft Stays or Brackets
- Fenders
- Bilge Keels
- Solid Bulwark
- Anchor Hawse Pipes; Chain Locker
- Hatchways and Hatches
- Freeing-Ports and Flaps, Cargo Ports, Coaling Scuttles, Coaling Ports and Coal Bunker Doors
- Watertight Doors
- Manholes and Manhole Doors
- Tunnels
- Foundations
- Superstructures, Raised Quarter Decks, and Lightly Constructed Deck Houses
- Engine-Room, Motor-Room, and Boiler-Room Casings, Coal-Shoots, Bunker Sides
- Engine Room and Ordinary Sky-Lights
- Funnel
- Floors in the Engine and Boiler Rooms
- Screen Bulkheads
- CHAPTER III - VARIOUS SHIP TYPES
- Merchant-Vessels
- Men-of-War
- Ships Used for Special Purposes
- Docks