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TIES OF MAIN DECK 



are run fore and aft from end to end each side of center line, at such dis- 

 tance from it as to clear all hatches. They are of plate iron, 15 by \ 

 inches, securely riveted to deck beams and to stringer plates or breast 

 hooks at the end ; butts closely fitted and butt-straps double riveted. 

 The width of these plates is gradually reduced to 9 inches forward and 

 aft. 



HOLD STRINGERS 



are 24 inches wide by £ inch thick at midlength, gradually reduced to 

 18 inches in width at the ends, and are run fore and aft on frames at a 

 height of 10 feet above top of floors, connected to deck beams and re- 

 verse bars by angle-irons. Alongside of the engines and boilers, where 

 there are no hold-beams, these angle- irons are doubled back to back and 

 riveted through. 



BEAMS OF BERTH DECK. 



Forward and aft of engines and boilers, and between them, there are 

 hold-beams of channel-iron, 6 by 2£ by § inches, spaced to every alter- 

 nate frame, connected and riveted to hold stringers and frames, and 

 kneed to frames the same as the main-deck beams. 



IRON DECK-HOUSE. 



The sides of the midship deck-house from the after end of the house 

 to the bulkhead forward of the funnel, including these two bulkheads, 

 are of plate iron, No. 5 wire gauge ; stanchions, of 3 by 3 inches, angle- 

 iron, spaced 24 inches from center to center. The beams are of angle- 

 iron, 3 by 3 by -f^ inches, riveted to stanchion and to stringer and hatch- 

 plate below. 



PLATING. 



The plating is run in fair lines, in and out strakes ; all horizontal 

 seams are lapped and all vertical seams, including bulwarks, are butted; 

 spaces between outer strakes and frames are filled with liners of proper 

 width and thickness. 



The garboard-strake is \% inch thick for three-fifths its length amid- 

 ships, gradually reduced to ^ 6 - inch at the ends, and is 32 inches wide. 



Sheer- strakes are fayed next to frames, \% inch thick for one-half the 

 length amidships, gradually reduced to -fa inch at the ends, and 38 

 inches wide. The upper edge extends 3J inches above top of plank- 

 sheer to connect bulwark plates. 



Bulwark plates from sheer-strake to rail are -fa inch thick, well riv- 

 eted to sheer-strake and frames. The whole length of the upper edge 

 of the bulwark plates, on the outside, is run an angle-iron, 3£ by 3£ by 

 § inches, well riveted to bulwark plates, with proper lap-strips at the 

 butts. To this angle-iron the rail is fastened. 



The side-strake next below the sheer-strake is | inch thick at mid- 



