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Monday,

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Monday,

Wednesday, 10th Detober. Wednesday, 30th October,

21st October.

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THE CHINA MAIL,

SHIPPING

DAMAGE TO SHIPS

SUSTAINED UNDER ORDINARY SERVICE CONDITIONS

METHODS OF REPAIR

(By J. L. Adam] Abstract of a Paper read at the Joint Summer Meeting of the North East Coast Institution and the Institu- tion of Engineers and Shipbuilders in

Scotland).

be

SECTION.

at the after end of

the

plate is cracked at the top of the con rection, the usuel repair is to fit a Email doubling, or crop and partly re- new the margin pleto. There is great diversity of spinion as to the rospective efficiencies of plate or angle guaset connections. Rate gussets have certain obvious advantages, and, ff thick enough, have proved very effec-

tive.

An angle gusset is, no doubt, effec- tive when the angle is of sufficiant size "nection to a plate stringer. The string, and thickness; the distance between the er itself may give" in a vertical first xivet in the frame bracket and direction, thus allowing movement about the heel or rivet attachment of that through the tank top is kept as small as practicable, and the tank re the stringer lug in any case, it is al verse bar carcied as near the knuckle ways difficult to be sure that shell lugs as possible. This later point is one are "faying" properly. Whatever may which might with advantage receive the cause. cracks are found in! greater consideration than it often shell plating, and, in addtion, the geta. It goes far als to ensure a astis- rivets in the connections of the inter-factory result to have the holes in the small and mediate frames to the stringer plates gusset angles punched

drilled through in place to the proper are frequently found slack.

Abaft the forepeak, similar cracks size, or, alternatively, to drill the holes in the shell plates are found in way of through the tank top and revera angle the panting attingers, and, more fra from the gusset., quently,

At the top end, the flange of the brackets attaching, intercoastal string bracket floor should be extended so as ers to the peak bulkheads. The anne to creas the bulb of the angle or re- methods of repair are adopted here as iverse flange of the channel or bulb in the peaks.

frame. All these points may seem very it is attention to such Alternative Ford-End Construction trifling, but

In an attempt to provide a structure small details that reults in an owner which will be less liable to such danswearing by a bailder. age, the British Corporation have in-į It has proved a difficult problema to troduced, in their rules, an alternative make a connection to a horizontal mar- form of fore-hd construction which gin plate which will be free from irri- has been adorited with great unanimity tating and, in some cases, serious minor by shipbuilders and shipowners alike, damages which result in spoiled cargo It must and might be used as a guide to future and delayed sailing dates. repairs on the ordinary fore-end con always be remembered that it le neces sary, not only that a ship shall be sca struction.

worthy, but shall fulfil the condition of being "ht to carry dry and perish- able cargo."

It was with some hesitation that accepted an invitation to read a paper- on this subject at this meeting, be cause, however indisputable the dan age itself may be, its cause and retherl of repair are subjects on which ship greatly in opinion. It is my intention SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu, Los Angeles, repaire's and survesora differ to deal chiedy with descriptions of Mexico & Panama.

damage, and of its repair, but almost Tuesday, 20th October. GINYO MARU SOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) via Singapore, Cape Town & Forts, devitably consideration of cause and effect arise, and lead, as they ought to HAKATA MARU

lead. to suggestions for improving de. sign,

This is part of the everyday work of a classification society, and, in spite of suggestions that such societies are tech- In this system, in the fore peak, all nically more a hindrance than a help plate stringer connections to the shot to naval architects. I venture to be have been abolished, all the frames are

The damage to such connections com- lieve that both in this work and in made deeper and stronger than in the the assistance they are ready and will-ordinary standard, and are directly monly takes the form of leaky rivets in ing to give to the designer of any new

new supported by siruts at cach tier, while the tank-top fangs of the connecting. form of structure, which sometimes

in addition, the shell plating Is in angle, and sometimes even of cracked 20 per cent. over the margin plates. Ir certain eases it may means the saving of his design from creased some

Time alone will show even be said that such trouble is inevit- being still-born, they more than justify normal rule. their existence, and that naval archi- whether this arrangement will provable if the connecting angle is single, tecture is more than a little indebted to wholly successful, but it has the cb If the connection is made by double them.

vious merit that every frame is direct angles, and a tug is fitted at the back The points considered are mostly ly and adequately supported at each of the reverse angle inside the tank, commonplace, and that is ny reason,

tier, and is much more effective in the connection may possibly prove satis. or excuse, for bringing them forward, self than under the older system, while factory in service, and this indicates method of repair to the as the designer is frequently too far the placing is of such thickness as to the usual removed from the result of his labour, give reasonable hope that it will not single form of connection.

"pant" unduly between the frames. and is too often unaware, or has only

Experience has shown that the best Abaft the peak bulkhead an attempt

job dim impression, that in miner but

is a T-bar connection associated in drilling through initating detats his work is not per has been made to face the problem in with special care

Primarily, however, the fect. It is not intended to treat of sin.ple, straightforward way. It is the holes. damage from collision, stranding, etc. not a matter of opinion but of fact that matter is one of design. It is certain because dezigner can be expected to the frames in this arca deflect, and that unless the floor plate is property legislate for that type of damage. bearing this in mind, it is justifiable to stiffened immediately under the point Damage occasioned by ordinary fair make such assumptions as to cause and of the frame bracket, deflection occurs, wear and tear is, in some measure,

effect as will lead to (1) the introduc end there is consequent disturbance of within the scope of the paper, as care-

tion of

greatly increased fore-end the rivets in the tank-top connection. ful design may have a considerable

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the extont of and liability inches deeper than normal; (2) the the size of the bracket and, conse to sich damage.

omission ok interecastal or platequently, reducing leverage and move. Colombo, Suer and Port Said. ALASKA MARU....

Wednesday, 9th October.

The paper, however, is principally stringers with shell attachments and ment. This naturally means an in- the substitution of runners inside the crease in the depth of the frame and concerned with the damage found in

a consequent reduction in the amount frame without attachment to the peak of defection, and upports the argu parts of the structure after the ship a has seen some service; such damage bulkh

bulkhead; and (3) increase in the

used in connection with the may not be of a major character, and strength stiffness of the frame nextments cannot be laid to the account of the

The appearance of the large frame

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to the bulkhead in order to mitigate the cracks in shel plating.

foregoing agencies, but it is of suf- trouble arising out of the "hard spand small bracket is, at first sight,

ficiently frequent occurrence and a suf- source of trouble to call for ficient serious attention. In This

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made by the fore-peak bulkhead. the basis of the design is sound, it may rather startling, but there is every The Sai Kong (or the West River) be found still more effective to increase reason to believe that a framing as the third largest river in the Chine ete Republic and second only to the further the frame next the bulkhead, rangement formed of, say, light 15-inch and to taper the stiffness from this channels in association with 24-inch

Yangtsze in importance. This magni- frame over on or two frames down tal brackets, is better for the ship as a

whole, and gives better results locally fcent trade route was opened to for that of the normal fore-end frame.

Cracks in the stem plates at the after bracket. In both cases it is essential in traffic in 1897, but how many

than a 12-inch frame and * 12-inet edge of the sem, and at the heel of that the distances from the top rivet in foreigners travel on this important the ends of erections such as bridges of frequent ocurrence. It is general the double-botton frame and the bot and long poore, and the disturbances found that these cracks occur in ships tom rivet in the main frame, to the found in decks at the corners of open- where there is not a sufficient number rivet in the margin angle be kept as of breast hooks, or where the distans small as possible. It is probalde that ings, etc.

the main from the stem the first frame is to the rivets at the beel of

The usual means

means adopted for frames could be closed up for a mat- repairing such damage is electric weld ter of two feet or so with great at ing, or cropping and renewing part vantage, even if it is only to ensure the stem plate, but these means can that the bilge plate is hard up. only be temporary in their effect, and more internal stiffening is the only permanent cure.

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Crack are sometimes found in the shell-plating at the fore end of mer chaut steamers, sometimes after only one or two years 'service, but usually after longer periods, although it is in.

connections of floor plates to margin, teresting to note that in some ships

Slamraing Damage

plates, of intercoastals to floors, and they never appear, There is usually

Slamming damage to the bottom for of frames to shell and floors, are fre Ivory marked local corrosion in the form

ward is of such frequent occurrencequently broken or leaky. To describe of a groove along the line of the crack, The shell plating in way of horizon and its causes so obvious that, on firet the repairs in the case of such slam-

tal brackets sometimes it is only by scraping

to bulkheads and the consideration, it would almost seem ming damage is superfluous, and

bracket and sealing that this is discover.

connections are frequently that expression has already been given Although it may not be possible to groove

The same type ed

found damaged.

off to all that can be aid about li. crack located.

In design a structure which will be "um- BAL In 1913 the late Dr. Thearle wrote a

shell damage is also found in the way paper on this subject entitled "Notice of so-called "tripping" bracketz a essels of full form it is difficult. If not damageable" under all circumstances,

Cares of Fatigue

in the webs, extension brackets at the ends of impossible, to build a structure that much may be accomplished to lessen the

cannot be damaged in service, if there risk. For instance, there is justifica Sted Material of Steamers," in which flats, such as tunnel recess tops, and is sufficient power to drive the ship tim for u standard of thickness of shell he described some of the cracks found at the horizontal brackets which, at fast enough and, the captain uses it on flat of floor which is greater than

werone time, were åtted at watertight bulk Good modern practice in in the shells at the fore end. To over-

fore-end that of the bottom plating amidships; shave heads. come this trouble various remedies

stiffening is sufficiently effective for in any case, the attachment of the The usual been tried, such as attaching couple patch or renew the shell plates where increase the power of cargo salps and not be skimped, and in addition to the method of repair 18 to careful handling, but the tendency to ebdl to the internal structure should" rive ed shell tugs to berate frames cracked, to path or crop and rents of masters to drive them harder sug-requirement that solid floors should be plates, fitting heams on and connecting the intermediate trames part of the bulkhead plates, rnd to regests the necessity for further con-filled on every frame, they should be by brackets or lugs to the stringer fit and sometimes double the angle consideration of the question by onera as adequately stiffened to prevent buckling

to the shell and bulkhead well as builders. plates, but none of these remedies, nections

and springing for this reason the seperately or combined, has proved plates. Such repairs can scarcely be Shell damage may be described in angles connecting half intercoastals to considered nomanent, and in most part by the familiar phrase "the keel the floors should extend the full death "If an outside shell plate has several cases the trouble recurs. In the case and shell plating found more or less of the floor plate at least on one side. cracks, repairs are usually effected by T-bar connectim on each side of the describe the condition

of stringer, comections to forepeaks, buckled," but "corrugated" wonid often In cases where a centre-line grain renewing the plate.

more aptly. bulkhead is fitted between hatchway If an ideate bulkhead plating seems an obvious in The rivating in the tank-top nating is ends, disturbance of the connection to is not too badly cracked, the cracks are

sometimes the tank top and in the substructure electrically welded and a doubling plata Provement The best way to avoid frequently disturbed, and fitted.

in the region of horizontal the plating itself is set up. Rivets in immediately under the ends of the The first method is expensive, trouble and the second unsightly and unsatis brackets to bulkheads is to cut away factory, but both are obvious, and the brackets altogether, to repair the there does not appear to be a great

shell and not replace the brackets; simi lar treatment is effective at the ex< choice of alteratives. Many reasons

the have been cited for the presence of tention brackets at the ends of there cracks, such as shell plating be- tunnel flats, etc. 1 ing too thin, frames too weak, panting stringers too stiff, or a combination of these causes.

infallible.

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.

These are typical instances from which the designer may derive benefit by dose association with the repair

It may be that the frame on which manager. If there is no stringer con- the panting beam is fitted is too stiffnection to a bulkhead it cannot give in relation to the intermediate frame, trouble, and it will be remembered that

which is only restrained by its con- in the description of the alternative method of fore-end construction

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it was pointed out that no such com nection is fittedpok

It may be found however, that they Shell plating cracking along the har of the bound bar of an ordinary bulkhead Thi Balkhead forms a stif point, and as fe framing on each side of it is continually deflecting, it is probable that frijare is a consequence of the shell rating being continually bent backwards and forwards. though it in easy to suggest repairs, it is not so easy to recommenda method which will prevent a recurrence of trouble, or a new design in which it will not occur

It may be that some such arrange- ment as is beng adopted at the fore @peak bulkhead would be successful. K ship is provided with really stif framing throughout the holds, and if inj addition the trames adjacent to ths bulkheads be made extra silft, so thất they are in effect webs, the hard spet effect of the bulkhead must be reduced, One conclu of seems obvious, and thet

Is that Ff horizontal bracket Lachments to the shel should."""" avolded in ever part of the chip, and Lit is niso

750 sugested that intercoasts) shell hugs shoessible, the space be made to All, as Completely as tween the hed of one freme and the

of the Trouble

experienced with hold frame bracket conections. In the case of vertical margins, loose rivets are frequently found near the top In betir flanges of the connections, but it dow "not appear that benoût. would arise from fitting a double riveted bar, which would not be obtained from 2a single tiveted bar, and a short lack log tik ing two or three rivets at the ton When, in extreme cases, the margin

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hatchway sometimes occurs, especially in the forchold. It is difficult to de- vise a connection, which will not give trouble in this area, but it helps materially to have a full depth inter- coastal mixt the contre girder and ex- tending beyond each end of the hatch- way

so as to overlap the centre-line bulkhead.

Most ownerя of ships fitted with wide-speed pillars

under deck

girders have had experience of tank tops being "ent down" in way of the pillar fest, even although the substruc- ture is normal. The consequent repairs are difficult and expensive, and right be avoided if the actual loads for which such pillars are designed were always realised. For instance, in the case of a two-deck vessel having a.20-foot Hatchway the load which the pillar must be designed to carry is sometimes

in the neighbourhued of 300 tons, that is, with the well flooded, or, if there is a bridge 'tween decks, the well may be full of coal or cargo and the ordin ary tween decks full of ordinary cargo. (Continued a Page 53

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