[modeleng] Re: Rivet forensics

Jesse Hi
 
The Liberty ships were I understand noted for stress cracking esp from a square 
edged hatch which was located by a welded seam see for example here 
http://www.mech.uwa.edu.au/DANotes/fracture/maritime/maritime.html
 
Cheers!
 
T
 
> From: fernj1@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [modeleng] Re: 
> Rivet forensics> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:55:02 -0500> > Liberty ships were 
> of course welded as far as I know and may even have been > x-rayed for 
> soundness of welds. The main reason Liberty ships sank was > because of good 
> old Adolph's U-Boats. One had to be brave to sail on a > cargo ship because 
> the convoys stopped for no survivors. Not a good thing > to think over while 
> stoking the furnaces or crewing on a Liberty ship. > There are a lot of good 
> men and big reciprocating triple expansion engines > lying on the bottom of 
> the Atlantic along with cargos needed for the war > effort. The Filer and 
> Stowell company of Milwaukee built 157 triples for > Liberty and Victory 
> ships. They had been building huge marine engines for > many years before the 
> war and I have some photos made in their factory.> > I think the world's 
> navies are on the way out. I saw some footage on the > History Channel last 
> week and you wouldn't believe some of the devious new > ways of eliminating 
> ships. One is a torpedo that passed underneath a ship > and detonated twice. 
> First blast pretty well broke a destroyer in half and > the second one sent a 
> shock wave that finished the job. All this took maybe > two seconds and you 
> had a two piece ship. Let's hear it for air ships!!!> > Jesse the redneck 
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