WOODEN SHIPS AND WOODEN CARGOES — A REMINISCENCE OF MORBIDITY

Two Erroneous, Commonly Cited Examples of "Swordfish" Piercing Wooden Ships

The Conservation of a Wooden

This paper describes the treatment and conservation of an Egyptian wooden coffin box dating back to ca. 1st century. The treatment procedures entailed cleaning, removal of dust and sand, securing severely damaged wooden fragments and damaged resin as well as the use of a suitable gap filler. Studies included wood and microbiological identification. TECHNICAL PAPER 1. Conservation Dept. Faculty ...

Buckling Behaviour of Wooden Poles

Woodc:n poles are popular structural elements currently used by Manitoba Hydro for distribution lines and transmission towers. In recent years, a considerable number of such poles have failed duc to heavy build-up of ice on the lines. These failures may be attributed to the accuracy or reliability of the design methods and/or to the lack of adequate experimental information to evaluate the crit...

The Structures of English Wooden Ships: William Sutherland's Ship, circa 1710

Beginning early in the sixteenth century, English shipbuilding methods underwent a major revolution with the introduction of Mediterranean/Iberian carvel, or plank-on-frame, techniques in place of the earlier, northern European clinker or lapstrake approach. In the older method, the lower edge of each strake of the planking overlapped on the outside the upper part of the strake below, and clenc...

Intraorbital Wooden Foreign Body

DESCRIPTION A 39-year-old man presented with a 5-day history of increasing left eye swelling and erythema, after a palm tree branch struck his face.