In the design of the first ironclads, the vessels were actually divided into water-tight compartments by bulkheads without doors or apertures.
The bulkheads closing in the compartments which were full of water, and all horizontal water-tight doors, were shored up with baulks of timber.
Bulkheads fore and aft were holding, it looked like, and there was still enough 'ship' left to carry on with.
If the horse reared and fell back, you would just draw your head in, like a turtle, and let the bulkheadscarry the strain.
Evidently, a fissure had been opened to the surface, forty feet above--a fissure big enough to let all the air out of A and B corridors, and activate the automatic bulkheads to seal off the airless section.
The bulkheads had dropped, and he couldn't get in.
It was employed successfully in cutting drainage-holes in the bulkheads of the St. Paul, which was raised in New York Harbor in the summer of 1918.
The vessel was torn almost asunder, her bulkheads broken, and the water poured into the ship.
Such was the creaking noise of the bulkheads or partitions, the dashing of the water, and the whistling noise of the winds, that it was hardly possible to break in upon such a confusion of sounds.
The pace of the tug seemed to get slower and slower, but all we on board could do was to keep the long timbers and their fastenings in their places, see that the bulkheads held their own, and stand by and watch the contest with the waves.
It is valuable at other points, but not indispensable, provided the vessel has numerous horizontal and vertical bulkheads to prevent too great a loss of buoyancy when the vessel is seriously damaged between wind and water.
I think we could brace the bulkheads so that we could hold the water out of both ends of her and let the main hole in her alone.
After many weeks the bulkheads were set and the pumps were started.
The carpenter had finished his bulkheads and hatch-gratings, and the men were daily engaged in emptying the salt-water out of the casks and refilling them with fresh--a somewhat slow and troublesome job.
New gratings were to be made--instead of those destroyed during the chase--and bulkheads were to be strengthened and repaired, for it was intended to partition off the males from the females.
Division by bulkheads that really divide, and free access to the deck from every water-tight compartment.
Ralph, that is the time I like to see you, fast in your armchair, with the long legs of you against the bulkheads to steady yourself, and trying in vain to swallow a cup of tea.
He it was who repaired the gilt carvings in the stern-works, and made the bulkheads for the admiral's cabin.
Perhaps some early sea-captains tried to make the between decks less gloomy by whitewashing the beams, bulkheads and ship's sides.
The bulkheads and wooden cabin walls were knocked away, or fortified with hammocks or bedding, to minimise the risk of splinters.
In the instant silence that succeeded, the sound of feet pounding on the deck and in the companion leaped into hearing; and a face, that of the sailor Holdorsen, appeared below the bulkheads in the cabin doorway.
Any of these, the bulkheads of the cabins, the very timbers of the hull itself, might be the place of hiding.
The marines, however, stationed along the larboard gangway of the enemy had found them out, and as I reached the cabin it seemed as if a hailstorm was playing into it, and the bulkheads were literally riddled with bullets.
The bulkheads were cut partially away to make room for it, the ship being strengthened above and below.
In addition there are partial bulkheads (c), which form the ends of coal bunkers, and aid materially in strengthening the flat bottom of the ship.
The gate is a wrought-iron buoyant gate, with five vertical partitions or bulkheads and six decks.
The difference of pressure or upward strain is transmitted by the cross bulkheads (a, b, c) from the bottom of the ship to the sides and longitudinal bulkheads.
For these reasons, upon the requirement of the Board of Trade, doorways, fitted with sliding doors, which can be closed by handles on the upper deck, have been cut in the bulkheads between the boiler rooms.
That meant, of course, that the after bulkheads would become decks, and explained a lot of the oddities he had noticed about the conversion job.
Bulkheads and decks had been ripped out and relocated incomprehensibly; the bridge and the control room under it were gone; she had been stripped to her framework, and the whole underside was sheathed in shimmering collapsium.
These bulkheads were divided into panels by fluted pilasters with richly-carved and gilded capitals, supporting a heavily-carved cornice picked out with gold.
When I had seen the bulkheads shored up to my satisfaction, I reported to the Captain on the bridge.
The body of the ship is divided by the water-tight bulkheadsextending from side to side, and from the bottom to the upper deck.
Into this space ran the ammunition passages, running aft along each side under the slope of the armoured deck, with the boiler-room bulkheads on the inner sides, and the bulkheads of the lower wing bunkers on the outer.
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