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  2. List of screw and bolt types - Wikipedia

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    deck screw: Similar to drywall screw, except that it has improved corrosion resistance and is generally supplied in a larger gauge. Most deck screws have a type-17 (auger type) thread-cutting tip for installation into decking materials. They have bugle heads that allows the screw to depress the wood surface without breaking it. double-ended screw

  3. Screw gun - Wikipedia

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    A screw gun that uses collated screws is known as a collated screw gun. Some screw guns can be set to stop driving the screw at a certain depth, which may be up to two inches below the surface. It is possible to drive a series of screws with the motor running continuously, and many manufacturers recommend doing this to install drywall. Screw ...

  4. HMS Amphion (1846) - Wikipedia

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    Upper deck: 2 × 68-pounder 95 cwt + 14 × 32-pounder (42cwt) HMS Amphion was a 36-gun wooden hulled screw frigate of the Royal Navy . She was initially ordered as a sail powered ship, but later reordered as a prototype screw frigate conversion.

  5. USS Tennessee (1865) - Wikipedia

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    USS Tennessee, originally USS Madawaska, was a screw frigate built of wood at the New York Navy Yard in Brooklyn, New York, and launched as Madawaska on 8 July 1865. Powered by two Ericsson vibrating-lever engines, Madawaska departed New York City for sea trials 14 January 1867, Commander Francis A. Roe in command.

  6. HMS Dauntless (1847) - Wikipedia

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    Her armament consisted of eighteen 32-pounder guns on her main deck, four 10-inch (250 mm) shell guns and two 68-pounder carronades on her upper deck. HMS Dauntless in a following wind, 17 November 1850 , by Captain Cowper Phipps Coles RN

  7. HMS Victoria (1859) - Wikipedia

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    HMS Victoria was a 121-gun screw first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy.She and her sister ship HMS Howe were the first and only British three-decker ships of the line to be designed from the start for screw propulsion, and were the largest wooden battleships of their time.

  8. RBL 7-inch Armstrong gun - Wikipedia

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    The 100-pounder (sic) as a pivot gun is superior to the 95 cwt. solid 8-inch gun; but as broadside guns between decks we do not like them; the smoke is too great. Rear choke carriages with such heavy guns are very slow in working and the decks dreadfully cut up. The common shell is one of its great efficiencies, the bursting charge is so great ...

  9. Steam frigate - Wikipedia

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    She was 52 m long, 13.5 m wide, and had a slightly changed sail plan of a 46 gun frigate. She had 18 30-pounders on the gun deck, and 8 80-pounders and 8 other guns on the upper decks. The engine of the Pomone was 220 hp, giving her a speed of 7.5 knots. Using both sail and engine she could make 10.5 kn. Sailing before the wind, however she ...