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Updated: May 7, 2025
Rigidity!" thumped the engines. "Absolute, unvarying rigidity -rigidity!" "You see!" whined the rivets, in chorus. "No two of you will ever pull alike, and and you blame it all on us. We only know how to go through a plate and bite down on both sides so that it can't, and mustn't, and sha'n't move." "I've got one fraction of an inch play, at any rate," said the garboard-strake, triumphantly.
The garboard-strake is the lowest plate in the bottom of a ship, and the Dimbula's garboard-strake was nearly three-quarters of an inch mild steel. "The sea pushes me up in a way I should never have expected," the strake grunted, "and the cargo pushes me down, and, between the two, I don't know what I'm supposed to do." "When in doubt, hold on," rumbled the Steam, making head in the boilers.
I'm afraid the matter is out of owner's hands for the present," said the Steam, slipping into the condenser. "You're left to your own devices till the weather betters." "I wouldn't mind the weather," said a flat bass voice below; "it's this confounded cargo that's breaking my heart. I'm the garboard-strake, and I'm twice as thick as most of the others, and I ought to know something."
Rigidity!" thumped the engines. "Absolute, unvarying rigidity rigidity!" "You see!" whined the rivets, in chorus. "No two of you will ever pull alike, and and you blame it all on us. We only know how to go through a plate and bite down on both sides so that it can't, and mustn't, and sha'n't move." "I've got one fraction of an inch play, at any rate," said the garboard-strake, triumphantly.
I believe the money-value of the cargo is over one hundred and fifty thousand pounds. Think of that!" "And every pound of it is dependent on my personal exertions." Here spoke a sea-valve that communicated directly with the water outside, and was seated not very far from the garboard-strake. "I rejoice to think that I am a Prince-Hyde Valve, with best Para rubber facings.
Aleck had been smiling blandly and contentedly all through this arraignment of her marriage policy, a pleasant light, as of triumph with perhaps a nice surprise peeping out through it, rose in her eyes, and she said, as calmly as she could: "Sally, what would you say to ROYALTY?" Prodigious! Poor man, it knocked him silly, and he fell over the garboard-strake and barked his shin on the cat-heads.
I believe the money-value of the cargo is over one hundred and fifty thousand pounds. Think of that!" "And every pound of it is dependent on my personal exertions." Here spoke a sea-valve that communicated directly with the water outside, and was seated not very far from the garboard-strake. "I rejoice to think that I am a Prince-Hyde Valve, with best Para rubber facings.
The garboard-strake is the lowest plate in the bottom of a ship, and the Dimbula's garboardstrake was nearly three-quarters of an inch mild steel. "The sea pushes me up in a way I should never have expected," the strake grunted, "and the cargo pushes me down, and, between the two, I don't know what I'm supposed to do." "When in doubt, hold on," rumbled the Steam, making head in the boilers.
"I'm afraid the matter is out of owner's hands for the present," said the Steam, slipping into the condenser. "You're left to your own devices till the weather betters." "I wouldn't mind the weather," said a flat bass voice below; "it's this confounded cargo that's breaking my heart. I'm the garboard-strake, and I'm twice as thick as most of the others, and I ought to know something."
Then one joking wave caught her up at the bow, and another at the stern, while the rest of the water slunk away from under her just to see how she would like it; so she was held up at her two ends only, and the weight of the cargo and the machinery fell on the groaning iron keels and bilge-stringers. "Ease off! Ease off; there!" roared the garboard-strake. "I want one-eighth of an inch fair play.
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