A Dreadnought's Buoy
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Title (Dublin Core)
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A Dreadnought's Buoy
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Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
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A Dreadnought's Buoy
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caption: The buoy of a dreadnought has a platform
all around on which the sailors can walk
to attach the cables. The small buoy is
of ordinary size—three feet in diameter
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AS battleships have grown in size
so have the mooring buoys to
which these floating forts are made
fast. The one shown in the photo-
graph was recently turned out by a
British firm, The buoy measures eight-
cen feet in diameter, and has a depth
of thirteen feet. It is made of steel
plates three-cighths of an inch thick,
and has four water-tight compart-
ments. A forged iron mooring bar
passes through its center. It will
withstand a breaking strain of 185
tons.
A wooden fender on the outside of
the buoy protects it from collisions.
This is made of elm and is one and
one-half feet wide and about the same
dimensions in depth. With mooring
bar the buoy weighs fifteen tons. It
carries a load of seven tons when one
of the bulkheads is filled with water.
The smaller buoy seen in the photo-
graph has a diameter of three feet and
weighs two hundred pounds.
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1916-03
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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404
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public Domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Filippo Valle
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Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 88, n. 3, 1916
