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—