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The strength of ships is a topic of key interest to naval architects and shipbuilders. Ships which are built too strong are heavy, slow, and cost extra money to build and operate since they weigh more, whilst ships which are built too weakly suffer from minor hull damage and in some extreme cases catastrophic failure and sinking.
Bulkheads were known to the ancient Greeks, who employed bulkheads in triremes to support the back of rams. By the Athenian trireme era (500 BC), [1] the hull was strengthened by enclosing the bow behind the ram, forming a bulkhead compartment. Instead of using bulkheads to protect ships against rams, Greeks preferred to reinforce the hull with ...
Native labourers may have manufactured the flotilla of boats used by Alexander the Great to navigate across the Hydaspes and even the Indus, under Nearchos. [24] [full citation needed] The Indians also exported teak for shipbuilding to ancient Persia. [25] Other references to Indian timber used for shipbuilding is noted in the works of Ibn ...
The neighbor’s bulkhead, which is at the same position on the beach profile as my replacement bulkhead but is three times longer than my own, was constructed operating heavy diesel equipment on ...
A compartment is a portion of the space within a ship defined vertically between decks and horizontally between bulkheads.It is analogous to a room within a building, and may provide watertight subdivision of the ship's hull important in retaining buoyancy if the hull is damaged.
The bulkhead, left, prevents water from entering at Lock and Dam No. 2 so work can be done on the gates to the chamber, right, Jan. 30 on the Mississippi River in Hastings, Minnesota.
Each tank is split into two or three independent compartments by fore-and-aft bulkheads. [1] The tanks are numbered with tank one being the forwardmost. Individual compartments are referred to by the tank number and the athwartships position, such as "one port", "three starboard", or "six center." [1]
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