Engineering Wonders of the World
Volume III
Forfatter: Archibald Williams
År: 1945
Serie: Engineering Wonders of the World
Forlag: Thomas Nelson and Sons
Sted: London, Edinburgh, Dublin and New York
Sider: 407
UDK: 600 eng- gl
With 424 Illustrations, Maps, and Diagrams
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126
ENGINEERING WONDERS OF THE WORLD.
work at the large steamer Milwaukee and
the White Star liner Suevic. In the autumn
of 1898 the former vessel went ashore at
Port Errol, near Peterhead, in bad weather.
It was soon recognized that the
„.The whole of the vessel could not
“Milwaukee.
be salved, but 'that, while a
large portion of the fore end was inextricably
jammed, the remainder, if detached there-
from, might perhaps be successfully floated.
To effect the severance a belt of dynamite
cartridges was exploded round thø shell of
the vessel, and after several such explosions
a complete division was made forward of the
machinery space without seriously injuring
the adjacent parts of the structure. So
strongly had the Milwaukee been constructed
that no less than 3,350 lbs. of dynamite
were exploded in cutting her asunder. The
most interesting demonstration of her
Fig. 5.—SALVED PORTION OF S.S. “ MILWAUKEE ” WITH DAMAGED
PLATES REMOVED.
(Photo, Messrs. Swan, Hunter, and Wigham Richardson.)
strength, however, was afforded
by the subsequent behaviour
of the transverse water-tight
bulkhead at the forward end
of the boiler space, upon the
strength and tightness of
which the vessel depended
to keep her afloat until placed
in dry dock for repairs. When
cut in two the after part,
extending from just before the
forward end of th© navigating
bridge, was not only safely
floated, but towed with the
bulkhead end foremost (the
tug-boats being assisted by
th© ship’s own engines) to the
Tyne, and moored there until
a new bow-end had been built,
launched, and made ready
for connection to it. A
facsimile of the fore part of
the vessel left behind on the
Scottish coast, 180 feet in
length, was launched by the
original builders of the vessel
(Messrs. Swan, Hunter, and
Wigham Richardson), and for
several days afterwards the
bow and stern portions of the
Milwaukee floated side by side
and pointed in the same direc-
tion (see Fig. 6), one of the
very few instances, if not the
only one, in which the bow