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A paper by Assistant Naval Constructor R. M. Watt, U.S.N., read at the seventh general meeting of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers in New York, 16-17 November 1899. It was printed in the Society's Transactions, Vol. 7, with the discussion and 16 photographic plates. Watt describes fittings developed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard: an electric water-tight bulkhead door, a fireproof asbestos sheathing for living quarters on steel ships, a metal folding berth and a metal skylight. The sheathing is asbestos fire felt over wire cloth, faced with asbestos millboard, with asbestos cement in the gaps. The paper says it was fitted on the New York, Indiana, Massachusetts, Atlanta and Cincinnati. In the discussion, George P. Erhard of the H. W. Johns Company describes the company's development of the sheathing with the Navy.
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- Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, New York (Transactions, Vol. 7)
- Date
- 1899
- Library no.
- ACL Doc 21529 · asbestosclaims.law/library/21529
- Rights
- Published in 1930 or earlier; in the public domain in the United States.
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“Novelties in Ship Fittings.” 1899. Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, New York (Transactions, Vol. 7). AsbestosClaims.Law Library, ACL Doc 21529. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/21529.
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