SHIPS WITHOUT A RIVET
The new oil-carrying vessel Moira, lately launched on the Tyne, is the biggest all-welded ship built in this' country. Not a rivet has been used in.her construction, the vessel having been, welded throughout by the elec.trlc-arc process. Riveting, by hand and machine, is fast passing out of fashion. So rapidly is it being superseded in. British shipyards by electric welding: that in some districts it is impossible I to find enough workmen skilled in the j .new kind of work. •■■■ . r. >
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Evening Post, Issue 51, 28 August 1935, Page 7
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85SHIPS WITHOUT A RIVET Evening Post, Issue 51, 28 August 1935, Page 7
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