Download or read book Hunt's Yachting Magazine, 1858, Vol. 7 (Classic Reprint) written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Hunt's Yachting Magazine, 1858, Vol. 7 Mr. Scott Russell's yard at the Isle of Dogs, was selected as a proper site for the purpose of building the vessel, and every pre caution to support the immense weight was adopted. During the building the vessel stood upon, piles of timber, placed ten feet apart, and four feet high. The entire fabric was built from below upwards, by adding plate to plate, the various parts being attached together by rivets one inch in diameter, and the plates being three quarters of an inch in thickness, except at the bottom, where they are a full inch. Up to the water-mark the hull is constructed with an inner and outer skin, two feet ten inches apart, each of three-quarter inch plate, and between these, at intervals of six feet, run horizontal webs of iron plates, which materially increase the power of resistance both of the inner and outer skin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.