Present Day Shipbuilding

Excerpt from Present-Day Shipbuilding: A Manual for Students and Ships' Officers for Their Respective Examinations; Ship-Superintendents, Surveyors, Engineers, Shipowners, and Shipbuilders; Being Chapter III., IV., Vi;, VII. Of "Steel Ships," Revised, Enlarged, and Specially Arranged, With Tes The present volume is, in a large measure, the outcome of the gratifying reception with which the smaller work, "Know your Own Ship," published in the Nautical Series, met on its first and subsequent editions. The success of that book emboldened its Author to embark, at the suggestion of the publishers, upon the preparation of a larger and more important undertaking, the result of which is now presented to the reader in the hope that it will be found, not less than the former work, to merit the approval of that section of the shipbuilding world for whose needs it has been specially devised. A sketch of the plan of the book will be found at the end of this preface; it is therefore unnecessary here to do more than briefly outline the circumstances under which it has been written. The work has taken four years to complete, the Author having been unable to devote more than his leisure hours to its composition. A careful study of some years' duration, carried out in that centre of the steel trade, the Cleveland district, has afforded the necessary basis for the first two chapters, while the subsequent chapters are the result of the Author's daily experience in the profession of ship construction and maintenance. The book has been copiously illustrated, and no expense has been spared in the preparation and execution of diagrams intended to amplify and elucidate the text. These have been placed in close juxtaposition to those portions of the work to which they refer, the Author conceiving that they will thus prove more readily available for purposes of reference than if they had been published as a separate volume, as is sometimes done in works of this class. The whole subject has been treated from a practical point of view, and the requirements of students, ship superintendents, shipbuilders, and marine engineers have been carefully studied. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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