Transactions of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects, Volume 24Royal Institution of Naval Architects., 1883 - Naval architecture List of members in each volume. |
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Admiralty air pressure armour Board of Trade boiler-rooms boilers bottom bulkheads buoyancy calculated Captain Noel cargo carried cent circumferential seams co-efficient coal collision compared considerable considered construction curve deck diagram diameter displacement effect efficiency engines experiments factor of safety feet forced draught FREDERICK BRAMWELL freeboard Froude furnaces gentlemen give given guide-blade important inches increase Institution ironclad John knots length Lloyd's Register Lloyd's Rules load line Lord MacFarlane Gray marine Martell matter means meeting Members of Council metacentric height Naval Architects obtained paper plates port President propeller proportion question regard resistance revolutions revolutions per minute rivets rolling Samuda Satellite screw ship shipbuilding shipowners Sir Edward Reed speed steam steamers strains strength thickness Thornycroft thrust tonnage tons torpedo boats Trade Rules trials vessels voyage water-chamber water-tight wave weight yacht Yarrow
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Page xv - It shall be the duty of the Secretary, under the direction of the Council, to conduct the correspondence of the Institution ; to attend all meetings of the Institution, and of the Council, and of Committees ; to take minutes of the proceedings of such meetings ; to read the minutes of the preceding...
Page 79 - ... material with all the rivet holes drilled in place and all the seams fitted with double butt straps each of at least five-eighths the thickness of the plates they cover, and all the seams at least double riveted with rivets having an allowance of not more than 75 per cent.
Page 80 - To be added if double butt straps are not fitted to the longitudinal seams, and the said seams are lap and double riveted.
Page xvii - Appendix to the person proposed to be expelled, advising him to withdraw from the Institution. If that advice be followed, no entry on the minutes, nor any public discussion on the subject, shall be permitted; but if that advice be not followed, nor a satisfactory explanation given, the Council shall call a Special General Meeting of Members...
Page xiv - But in case of the absence of the President and of all the VicePresidents, the Meeting may elect any member of Council, or, in case of their absence, any Corporate Member present, to take the chair at the Meeting.
Page xvii - Also they may remit any arrears which are due from such an individual ; or may accept a collection of books, or drawings, or models, or such other contribution as, in their opinion, under the circumstances of the case, may entitle the person to be enrolled as a Life Subscriber, or to enable him to resume his former rank in the Institution which may have been in abeyance from any particular cause.
Page 200 - DEDUCTIONS ALLOWED. On account of Space required for Propelling Power ........ On account of Spaces occupied by Seamen or Apprentices, and appropriated to their use...
Page 80 - To be added when the boiler is of such a length as to fire from both ends, or is of unusual length, such as flue boilers ; and the circumferential seams are fitted as described opposite P...
Page 79 - The boilers must be tested by hydraulic pressure to twice the working pressure in the presence and to the satisfaction of the Board's Surveyors. "But when the above conditions are not complied with, the additions in the following scale miist be added to the factor fice according to the circumstances of each case.
Page 282 - I am directing my course to starboard." Two short blasts to mean, " I am directing my course to port." Three short blasts to mean, "I am going full speed astern.