File:Canadian Shipping and Marine Engineering January-December 1918 (1918) (14579598710).jpg

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Title: Canadian Shipping and Marine Engineering January-December 1918
Year: 1918 (1910s)
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Subjects: Marine engineering Shipbuilding
Publisher: Toronto Maclean-Hunter Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ts were entered into. The tankbuilders started toerect the steel(amounting toabout 900 tons)long before thearrival of the steamer, and by Junethe loading of the tested tanks inthe Borgestad was begun, and the actualloading was finished in 10 days. It isneedless to say that almost unsurmount-able difficulties had to be overcome—in the first place, on account of theuse of cylindrical tanks for ships; se-condly, because of the manufacture ofthese tanks by tank-builders, the rivet-ing by house-smiths and several otherobjectionable features which were notdone according to old-time custom. Mr.Jack, during this time, spent severalmonths in Norway to adjust matters witrthe classification society and had to with-araw the second ship from their claa.iand chanee to Lloyds. The first shipsailed in September, 1913, without class,which was only again assigned after atrial of three months. During 1913 the Escalona, then build-ing at a British yard, was changed into a 2 MARINE ENGINEERING OF CANADA
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FIG. 2. -LONGITUDINAL SECTION AND DE CK PLANS OF FABRICATED SHIP. cylindrical tanker, but, due again to diffi-culties of classification, horizontal tankswere installed. These tanks were alsomanufactured and tested complete out-side the shipyard. In the fall of that jyear three ships were started in GreatBritain on the general design of the!tankers now building at Chester, but thejshipyard would extend the fabricatingportion only to the cylindrical tanks. In 1914 the Chris Knudsen and theMills were converted on this side. Theformer was on the type of the Borgestad.A new departure was made with theMills. The tanks in this ship were con-nected to tanktop and deck, a trunkbuilt on deck and connections made fromtank to tank and to the ships side, thusforming cylindrical tanks and spaces be-tween tanks and shell, with oiltight cen-tre line bulkhead between tanks. Prac-tically all the material was ready forassembly when shipped from Pittsburg.All holes were punched and countersunk,and stiffe

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