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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SOME EXTRAORDINARY SHIPBUILDING FEATS. 127
and the stern of a vessel have been known to
look the same way. Our illustrations tell the
interesting story. Fig. 4 shows the salved
portion of the vessel in dry dock, with dyna-
mite-fractured ends ; Fig. 5 shows the
dock was generally similar to that followed
in the case of the Milwaukee, and now the
vessel is once more “ walking the waters
like a thing of life.”
And thus we might continue to relate
fractured and ragged ends
removed ; and Fig. 6 illustrates
the old and new parts afloat
before being joined together.
So accurately was the whole
of the work accomplished that
the vessel’s principal dimen-
sions were exactly as they had
been, and her gross tonnage
differed by only six tons from
what it had been originally.
During the South African War
the Milwaukee was chartered
by the British Government as
a transport, and it was in this
vessel that the redoubtable
Boer general Cronje was sent
to St. Helena after his sur-
render to the British forces.
Since that time the vessel has
seen much service in tho heavy
North Atlantic trade, and she
has never shown any signs of
weakness.
The story of the more recent
disaster which, overtook the
White Star liner Suevic, by
running ashore at the Lizard,
will be remembered by many
of our readers. The recov-
Fig. 6.—OLD AND NEW PARTS OE S.S. “ MILWAUKEE ” AFLOAT
BEFORE BEING JOINED TOGETHER.
Probably the only instance in which the two ends of a ship have pointed
in the same direction.
cred portion of the vessel—
representing about two-thirds
of her total length, and comprising the valu-
able propelling machinery—
„ he. was safely towed round to
“ Suevic.
Southampton, docked there,
and generally prepared for junction with a new
forward part, which was built and launched
by Messrs. Harland and Wolfl. The modus
operandi of joining the two portions in dry
instance after instance of proud ships being
overtaken with disaster and returning crippled
to port after having been liberated by brave
salvors from the grip of the rocks, where,
perhaps, they have lain for many weeks
battered by the force of angry gales ; or we
might tell how the skill of the shipbuilder
and repairer once more makes the vessel—