American Architect And Building News Vol 27 Jan Mar 1890by Various PDF Download

Excerpt from The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 17: January June, 1885 The lower wards of the hospital-ship are five in number (fig. And are arranged to make use of the iron bulkheads that are fixed across the two vessels, binding the hulls together. These divided the Castalia into first and second saloons, etc., for passengers. The sides and ends of the lower wards are made of iron plate; the upper deck which forms the roof is plated all over with iron plat ing and covered with 25-inch pine deck-planks, caulked water-tight. The lower wards are thus really cased with iron. They are similarly supplied with lavatories, hot-closets, and sculleries, as the upper wards; two skylights are provided in each ward to assist in giving light from above. The windows are all made as large as possible; they are 3 feet 6 inches by 2 feet 6 inches, divided into three sashes, similar to the upper windows. The means of ventilation are, of course, much greater in the lower wards than the upper ones; the lower wards being much larger and not so high in the roof, the height from deck to deck being 8 feet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.