Word: sternposts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collision seemed likely to reopen an old controversy over the 8-in.-gun cruisers of which the Chicago is one of ten. When the first eight were built, in conformity with the London Naval Treaty, five of them had to be altered because of sternpost trouble. They were severely criticized by Admiral William Veazie Pratt, naval adviser at the 1930 London Conference, who called some of them "tin clad" because their gun turrets were not fully protected with steel plates. But Rear Admiral Joseph K. Taussig, assistant chief of operations, last week explained that the Chicago's turrets were...
Dismayed was the Navy last month to discover that the heavy sternposts of five of these new men-o-war were defective, that their rudders might rip away on turns made at high speed. But downright disheartening was the discovery last week that all eight cruisers at sea have such a short, jerky roll as to interfere with the accuracy of their gunfire. The sternpost flaws might have been the fault of the shipbuilders or of the subcontractor who supplied all the castings. The choppy roll was directly attributable to the Navy's own design...
...thing no one argues-Shamrock V is handsome. Hers is a gull-shaped green body, striped with a white boot-top at the waterline, the light swell amidships giving a look of speed. Mahogany over a steel frame, with keel, stem, and sternpost of wood, a dagger-plate centreboard streamlined and built of teak, plated with bronze. Her hull measurements are within a fraction of an inch the same as Enterprise's; she carries 16 square feet less sail and has a little more displacement. She can ride an English chop on a reach and pull before the wind...
...sawed, used jacks. Still the Weetamoe stuck. A squall was coming up, the sun was going down. Workers and christeners went home, deferred the launching for two days. Finally afloat, the Weetamoe looked like a long-necked bird. Her line of keel, almost straight from the heel of the sternpost to the fore-end of the water line, gives her a decided gain in wetted surface over all the others, makes her fast in light airs, but hard to steer before the wind...
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