 ... the strength and resisting powers of an iron ship, and that under every contingency and every circumstance in which the vessel can be placed. Moreover, it will give a wide margin of security under all those forms and conditions of peril to which every...  Journal of the Franklin Institute - Page 781852Full view - About this book
 | Sir William Fairbairn - Engineering - 1856 - 374 pages
...under all those forms and conditions of peril to which every vessel navigating the ocean is exposed. I am fully aware that many thousand vessels are now...afloat that would not stand one-third of the tests which I have taken, but that is no reason why we should not endeavour to effect a more judicious distribution... | |
 | Sir William Fairbairn - Engineering - 1856 - 450 pages
...under all those forms and conditions of peril to which every vessel navigating the ocean is exposed. I am fully aware that many thousand vessels are now...afloat that would not stand one-third of the tests which I have taken, but that is no reason why we should not endeavour to effect a more judicious distribution... | |
 | Useful metals - 1857 - 688 pages
...all those forms and conditions of peril to which every vessel navigating the ocean is exposed. We are fully aware that many thousand vessels are now afloat, that would not stand one-third of the tests which 476 PRACTICAL TESTS OF IRON SHIPS. we have takeu; but that is no reason why we should not endeavour... | |
 | John Scoffern - Mineral industries - 1857 - 688 pages
...to which every vessel navi- j gating the ocean is exposed. We are fully aware that many thousand i vessels are now afloat, that would not stand one-third of the tests which \ we have taken; but that is no reason why w1e should not endeavour to effect more judicious... | |
 | John Scoffern - Mineral industries - 1861 - 704 pages
...all those forms and conditions of peril to which every vessel navigating the ocean is exposed. We are fully aware that many thousand vessels are now afloat, that would not stand one-third of the tests which we have taken; but that is no reason why we should not endeavour to eüect more judicious distribution... | |
 | Sir William Fairbairn - Engineering - 1864 - 472 pages
...under all those forms and conditions of peril to which every vessel navigating the ocean is exposed. I am fully aware that many thousand vessels are now...afloat that would not stand one-third of the tests which I have taken, but that is no reason why we should not endeavour to effect a more judicious distribution... | |
 | Sir William Fairbairn - Engineering - 1864 - 468 pages
...under all those forms and conditions of peril to which every vessel navigating the ocean is exposed. I am fully aware that many thousand vessels are now...afloat that would not stand one-third of the tests which I have taken, but that is no reason why we should not endeavour to effect a more judicious distribution... | |
 | Oliver Byrne - Metal-work - 1874 - 718 pages
...all those forms and conditions of peril to which every vessel navigating the ocean is exposed. We are fully aware that many thousand vessels are now afloat that would not stand one-third of the tests which we have taken ; but that is no reason why we should not endeavor to effect more judicious distribution... | |
 | Oliver Byrne - Electroplating - 1878 - 720 pages
...all those forms and conditions of peril to which every vessel navigating the ocean is exposed. We are fully aware that many thousand vessels are now afloat that would not stand one-third of the tests which we have taken ; but that is no reason why we should not endeavor to effect more judicious distribution... | |
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