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Iron Hulls for Western River Steamboats
Owing to the increasing scarcity of ship timber, and the consequent greater cost of wooden vessels, attention has been more and more turned to the substitution of iron for wood in the structure of hulls for vessels of all descriptions, with steam and sail, for ocean traffic or river service. Abroad, in England especially, iron has almost entirely superseded wood for this purpose, and in this country at the present time out of twenty-one ocean-going steamers in process of construction but four are being built of wood. The greater durability, the lesser weight, the small cost for annual repairs of iron bulls, when compared with wooden hulls, has, even on this side of the Atlantic ocean, overcome the slight increase of their first cost, and the wooden ocean steamer is almost a relic of the past. On the lakes the increase in the number of iron vessels built each year for the past ten years, shows that even in that section of the country where wood should still be cheap, the iron hull is rapidly winning its way to public favor.
Iron Hulls for Western River Steamboats
Owing to the increasing scarcity of ship timber, and the consequent greater cost of wooden vessels, attention has been more and more turned to the substitution of iron for wood in the structure of hulls for vessels of all descriptions, with steam and sail, for ocean traffic or river service. Abroad, in England especially, iron has almost entirely superseded wood for this purpose, and in this country at the present time out of twenty-one ocean-going steamers in process of construction but four are being built of wood. The greater durability, the lesser weight, the small cost for annual repairs of iron bulls, when compared with wooden hulls, has, even on this side of the Atlantic ocean, overcome the slight increase of their first cost, and the wooden ocean steamer is almost a relic of the past. On the lakes the increase in the number of iron vessels built each year for the past ten years, shows that even in that section of the country where wood should still be cheap, the iron hull is rapidly winning its way to public favor.
Iron Hulls for Western River Steamboats
Allen, Theodore (Autor:in)
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers ; 2 ; 271-285
01.01.2021
151874-01-01 pages
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