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November, 1910 TAE MARINE. REVIEW x BRE CS ye ay 5 REPRE SEER EERE MO RRO se es ses THE OLtympic, TAKEN IMMEDIATELY AFTER LAUNCHING. : very pleasing and symmetrical ap- long, the weight of the double beam ing the ways, three heavy anchors pearance. As illustrating the import- being 4 tons; the stern frame weighs were placed in the bed of the river on ance of the riveting in this vessel, 70tons; the after boss arms 73% tons, each side of the ship, each anchor be- there are half' a million rivets in the double bottom alone, weighing about 270 tons, the largest rivets being 1% in. in diameter; and in the complete ship there will be something like three millions, weighing about 1,200 tons. The following particulars will. also be found interesting: The largest shell plates are 36 ft. long, weighing 44% tons each; the largest beam 92 ft. = RI SGN oe ERE STEERING QUADRANT S. the forward 45 tons; the rudder 100 tons; the engine crank shafts 118 tons each; bedplate 195 tons; columns 21 tons each; the heaviest cylinder, with liner, 50 tons; wing propellers each 38 tons--finished weights. The castings for the turbine cylinder weighed 163 tons, and for the center (turbine) propeller, which is of solid bronze, 22 tons. For checking the vessel after leav- OLYMPIC. RuppErR HEAp oF S. S. OLYMPIc ing connected by a /7-inch steel-wire hawser to eyeplates riveted to the shell plating. There were also placed in the bed of the river two piles of cable drags, each weighing over 80 tons, connected in a similar manner with an §8-inch steel-wire hawser. These were all arranged so that when the vessel was nicely clear of the end of the slip the drags and anchors acted simultaneously in bringing the IN LATHE.