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ENGINE ROOM

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 979 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ENGINE See also:ROOM BULKHEAD WATERTIGHT 11111 hH:1 f 3~~ See also:Ili iiII_II1111 illC 1111111111 11 adopted in large passenger steamers of this class.' In both the transverse framing becomes deeper and stronger as the extremities are approached, while the decks and See also:side stringers are all continued to the extremities, See also:finishing in strong See also:breast-hooks, and additional stringers, breast-hooks and panting beams are introduced. It is worthy of See also:note that the See also:rudder and steering See also:gear are in this See also:vessel entirely under See also:water, so that she may be used for See also:war purposes without See also:running the See also:risk of disablement by the rudder or steering gear being struck by projectiles. Above the water the stern is finished off so as to have the See also:appearance of being fitted with an See also:ordinary rudder. This important departure from the usual practice was first introduced by See also:Professor Biles in the " See also:City of See also:Paris," and the " See also:Campania " and her See also:sister the " Lucania " were in 1902 the only See also:British See also:ships so fitted. Fig. 122 gives in See also:perspective the See also:general structural arrangements of the Japanesecruiser" Idzumo," andfigs. 118-121 (PlateXIV.) arefrom photographs of the vessel in course of construction. It Differraces will be seen that the departures from the structural arrange- between ments of a See also:merchant See also:ship are very considerable. As already war and pointed out, lighter scantlings are used in warships than wrchant in ordinary merchant ships. This is effected by more strips. carefully devised and more costly arrangements of framing and plating, and by making the structural features necessary in a warship for See also:protection, &c., serve also for See also:local and general strength. In warships, frames are placed at greater distances apart, 4 ft. amid-ships and 3 ft. at the extremities being the usual spacing, as compared with some 2 ft. in a merchant ship.

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