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31st January 2021, 10:16 PM
#21
Re: SS Skeldergate drawing questions
Originally Posted by
Ivan Cloherty
Stream anchor is usually an Admiralty style anchor (as used on sailing ships in days of yore) this is normally kept in the poor area at the stern. .
Sorry should have read poop area.
Incidentally Frank when we say poop area we don't mean toilet
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31st January 2021, 11:25 PM
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Re: SS Skeldergate drawing questions
Originally Posted by
j.sabourn
Your little what you call crane on the bow is for your Suez Canal search light. It comes through a plate called the breasthook mentioned previously .JS. Over to the next man.JS.
Whoops forgot about that John
For Frank : the meaning of 'R B' on the deck, the only thing I can think of is Ring Bolt which is a round steel ring attached to the deck through a small connection which allows the ring some movement through a 180 degrees, normally you will find them all over the deck, close to hatch coamings and also stringer plate and are used for wires to pass through for lashing deck cargo.
Others may think of something else
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1st February 2021, 01:50 AM
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Re: SS Skeldergate drawing questions
Think Frank if he realises words that shore people accept as the norm, have in a lot of cases a different meaning to seafarers. e.g. walls are not walls but bulkheads. ceilings are not ceilings but deckheads , spar ceiling is something totally different again. Floors are not floors but decks, a floor on a ship is usually a steel girder in its constructional strength. If he is writing a book for the general public he will have to choose his words carefully so that the majority of his reader know what he is referring to. The era he is writing about is the time when Time itself was common to all onboard by the ringing of bells , and there are seamen them self’s today who don’t know this system. So he is going to be torn between two bands of readers , those who know nowt , and those ones who have done a couple of trips on a passenger vessel and think they know it all. I dont envy him his task , but no doubt he will strike a happy medium somewhere , trial and error is the phrase. Once more all the best to him. JS
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1st February 2021, 05:48 AM
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Re: SS Skeldergate drawing questions
Trial and error rules for me. I can only succeed after failing many times. The trick in overcoming things lies in never giving up. Once the 2nd or 3rd draft is polished I have a friend who will edit the book for me. Then it goes to this forum for the hard eye. then back to polishing. So, the book is for people like me who never went to sea. Yet, I would have failed if you-all don't like it.
The drawings took more time than allotted. Tomorrow it is back to four pages a day. There is a ten page outline and 32 pages written. Every morning what is written gets rewritten. Slow going. Still hope to nail the end of March deadline for a rough draft.
What comes afterwards is to turn these drawings into a 3D computer model. Now there is the hard work.
thanks for all your replies. I may be buying you all a whisky and a beer
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1st February 2021, 08:57 AM
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Re: SS Skeldergate drawing questions
Glad you said Whisky AND a beer and not Whisky OR a beer
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3rd February 2021, 07:55 PM
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Re: SS Skeldergate drawing questions
BA could be Breathing Apparatus, not sure about BK or could it be BR.
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3rd February 2021, 08:03 PM
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Re: SS Skeldergate drawing questions
avit on Focsl'e head is usually for use in lifting heavy items out of Forecastle stores and for mounting Suez Canal searchlight.
:Forepeak tank is a Ballast Tank, this one has capacity of 95tons of ballast water.
:The C/L is short form for Center Line, in this case it is designating a Fore and Aft Centerline Bulkhead.
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3rd February 2021, 08:12 PM
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Re: SS Skeldergate drawing questions
Tunnel & Hold wells are catchment drain wells to hold any leak off water from tunnel or holds.
Usually they will have a suction line connected to a sump pump upstream for sucking out residual fluids when levels get too high.
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3rd February 2021, 08:24 PM
#29
Re: SS Skeldergate drawing questions
:Correct it is weather deck, in this case it is a raised weather deck.
:As one member already stated, RB is probably Ringbolt.
:Correct these are called Hatch Beams, they are portable and lifted out to gain clear/full access to hold.
:Petty Officer.
:Correct but usually referred to as Officers saloon on a cargo ship.
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3rd February 2021, 08:41 PM
#30
Re: SS Skeldergate drawing questions
Posts 26 - 29 Did you read any of the previous posts, just curious
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