They have wireless telegraphic apparatus on board, and are specially constructed with longsuperstructures and high collier-like bows to enable them to keep at sea in almost any weather.
They are painted a brownish-grey colour and have high collier-like bows with massive armoured conning-towers and long superstructuresamounting to narrow decks.
Three tall panoramic periscopes are fitted, and their high superstructures and increased buoyancy when travelling on the surface enable them to keep the sea in almost any weather.
Timber superstructures for anything but small spans are rarely adopted now, except for temporary works, or on lines abroad, where the transport on girder-work would be very costly, and where good timber is very cheap and abundant.
At Colombo the superstructuresof both the south-west and north-west breakwaters were built on the sloping-block system in sections 5-1/2 ft.
Upright-wall breakwaters and superstructures are generally made of the same thickness throughout, irrespective of the differences in depth and exposure which are often met with in different parts of the same breakwater.
The retention of the vertical joint however, between the two rows led to the overthrow of the greater part of the superstructures of the outer arms at Madras, situated in a depth of 45 ft.
The very exposed breakwater at Alderney was commenced on this principle about the middle of the 19th century; and the outer breakwaters at Leghorn and St Jean de Luz have superstructures founded at low water on concrete-block mounds.
Owing, however, to the fact that the price of timber has increased considerably, whilst that of Portland cement has been reduced, durable concrete superstructures are beginning to be substituted for the rapidly decaying cribwork structures.
Sir: Your communication in behalf of the citizens of Cumberland, remonstrating against the erection of bridges of wooden superstructures over Wills creek, &c.
With her lavish decorations, her towering superstructures fore and aft, and her general aping of a floating castle, she was the wonder of all the landsmen in her own age, as she has been the delight of picturesque historians ever since.
Huxley's anatomical work was essentially living and stimulating, and too often it has become lost to sight simply because of the vastsuperstructures of new facts to which it gave rise.
It was in such ships that Columbus made his voyage of discovery in 1492, although the superstructures fore and aft on his boat were less exaggerated than in some later vessels.
The Mediaeval shipbuilders in striving to improve their craft, making them as seaworthy and as spacious as possible, first added decks, and then built towering superstructures at bow and stern.
The sum total of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society--the real foundations, on which rise legal and political superstructures and which correspond to definite forms of social consciousness.
Chattel, feudal and capital slaveries respectively constituted the foundations for the superstructures of ancient, mediaeval and modern civilizations.
In the casemates housing the smaller guns in the superstructures and on the deck below are similar though smaller groups.
Her superstructures look like the ruins of a town after an earthquake, and several large holes gape in her sides.
They were to be so strong in order to sustain with ease those vast superstructureswhose own weight was to be not less than the weight of the casing stones which he designed to be used.
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