U.S. NAVY TRAINING FILM SHIP HULL FUNDAMENTAL LINES & SECTIONS SHIPBUILDING KEEL BLOCK 18224

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This black & white educational/training film is about the fundamental lines & sections of a ship's blueprint and how to read it. It was for the US Navy and was made in 1943.

Opening titles: Fundamental Lines & Sections - selected sequences based on US Office of Education film "Preparing and Setting a Keel Block and Bottom Cradle"
(:06-:23). Battleships at sea. A cargo ship. An aircraft carrier. A Destroyer, Cruiser and Battleship. US Navy men. Navy men work on a ship. Ships blueprints. A city map (:24-1:37). A ship is being measured. Men measure with tape. Animation shows the base line and vertical measurements, center line and width measurements. This is explained by a narrator. On a blueprint the base line and centerlines are pointed out. Horizontal lines are called water lines. Buttock lines are explained. Water line measurements are explained. A blueprint shows water and buttock lines. Frame lines are explained (1:38-5:32). Animation of a ship's structure. A steel member is the backbone of the ship - a flat keel (K). Center Vertical Keel (CVK) is explained and shown. The following are shown in animation and explained where they are in the ship: Bottom plating, floors, closed floors, open floors, longitudinals, bottom compartments, inner bottom (IB), Tank Top (TT), frames, web frames, shell plating, strakes, garboard strakes, sheer strakes, tranverse bulkheads, longitudinal bulkheads, deck beams, fore and aft girders, deck plating (5:33-10:48). Shown in animation and explained are strakes lettered in alphabetical order. The hull is shown. Port side is left looking forward, starboard is right looking forward. Midship section, forward, aft are shown. A naval vessel is shown in animation and broken down into A, B, C sections. A division is the bow, the stem is the front of the bow, fore peak is up front as well. B division is the machine division. C division has rudder and the stern as well as propellers. Deck from stem to stern is the main deck. Second deck is below the main followed by the third deck. Half deck. Platform decks. Lowest deck is the hold (10:49-14:59). Ship blueprints. Two hands roll up a blueprint. A blueprint has a certain floor on it. It is explained as how to read it. Animation explains as well. How to locate a pipe in transverse bulkhead - how to find it is explained through animation (15:00-18:35). How to locate a sea cock is explained and shown. An arrow guides. Frame lines are shown and the ship is shown animated. Blueprints. A ship at sea (18:36-21:08). End credits (21:09-21:16).

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