Manner of launching the steamships Peking and Tokio

✍ Scribed by J.E.W.

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1877
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 184 KB
• Volume: 104
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(77)90361-1

✦ Synopsis

They are 419 feet over all, 396½ feet on 18 foot water line, 47~ feet beam, and 38 feet 5 inches deep from base line to spar deck at centre, and register 5079~o ~ tons.

The accompanying plate illustrates the method of launching these steamers, which was very successful.

A, Figs. 1 and 2, represents the "ground ways," which rest on the blocking placed on cap piece of piles A r, Figs. 2 and3, and are 430 feet each, fastened together with bolts, and faced with oak 2~-inches thick. B represents the "Bilge ways," upon which the ship rests after the shores and bilge blocks have been knocked away, and are 325 feet long, fastened together by ropes passing through holes in ends.

B p, Figs. 1 and 3, is the "packing," extending 300 feet from end to end; at the "ends" the "packing" is held tightly to plating by chains passing through it and under the keel, as shown at c, e p, c if, c "f, e r'r, Fig. 3. The wedges d, Fig. 1, are placed every 2 feet apart, and are used for setting up the packing immediately before knocking away shores and blocking, a few moments preceding launching. The bilge ways are fastened to ground ways at e, Figs. 3. and