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Updated: June 1, 2025
The holding-down bolts of twelve boilers and three triple-expansion engines, unintended to hold such weights from a perpendicular flooring, snapped, and down through a maze of ladders, gratings, and fore-and-aft bulkheads came these giant masses of steel and iron, puncturing the sides of the ship, even where backed by solid, resisting ice; and filling the engine- and boiler-rooms with scalding steam, which brought a quick, though tortured death, to each of the hundred men on duty in the engineer's department.
The other end should be marked, cut, and filed to a semicircle. Drill three 3/16-inch holes in the turnover for the holding-down screws. The two standards should now be soldered temporarily together at the round ends and trued up to match each other exactly.
It was intensely cold, and in order to have a fire we were compelled to hold the pipe down on the little conical camp stove, for with the flopping of the tent and fly, the pipe was in constant motion. Faye would hold it for a while, then I would relieve him, and so on. The holding-down business was very funny for an hour or two, but in time it became monotonous.
Bevel off the ends of the last inside to allow the valve to enter easily. Make the valve. Bore the steam ports, and solder valve tube and cylinder together. Solder holding-down wing, W, to cylinder. Finish off the piston. Solder the bearings in their standards. Prepare shaft, crank disc, crank pin, and piston rod.
The great curve of her back shines frostily under the lights, and some minute alteration of trim makes her rock a little in her holding-down slips. Captain Purnall frowns and dives inside. Hissing softly, "162" comes to rest as level as a rule. Her extreme diameter, carried well forward, is thirty-seven.
Geary, and disappears through the door which a foot high pneumatic compressor locks after him. "A-ah!" sighs the compressor released. Our holding-down clips part with a tang. We are clear. Captain Hodgson opens the great colloid underbody porthole through which I watch over-lighted London slide eastward as the gale gets hold of us.
The cylinder escape-valve he abolished with a flogging-hammer. It is difficult in far-off ports to come by such valves, unless, like Mr. Wardrop, you keep duplicates in store. At the same time men took off the nuts of two of the great holding-down bolts that serve to keep the engines in place on their solid bed.
An engine violently arrested in mid-career may easily jerk off the nut of a holding-down bolt, and this accident looked very natural. Passing along the tunnel, he removed several shaft coupling-bolts and nuts, scattering other and ancient pieces of iron underfoot.
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