Bomber assemblies tested in new hangar

✍ Scribed by R.H.O.

• Book ID: 103078462
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1945
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 72 KB
• Volume: 240
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(45)90520-5

✦ Synopsis

Special attention was required in the matter of anchorage to make the pipe secure against action of ocean cnrrents. It was decided that concrete anchors were needed at four points and that it would be best if these could be attached to the pipe by chains. As water depths ranged up to IiO ft. there would be advantage of sinking the anchor with the pipeline, thus avoiding need for a diver. The plan used was to make anchors out of drums filled with concrete, attach these to the pipe with chains at the shore line and float the anchors out with the pipe, supporting the anchors on additional drums, which also were punctured at the time of sinking.

R. H. O.