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Detail Specifications for Building Aircraft Carriers, 1941, describes the Essex class carriers.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

DETAIL SPECIFICATIONS
FOR BUILDING
AIRCRAFT CARRIERS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Section		Page
A-1.	General	1
A-2.	Summary of work pertaining to hull to be done by contractor	5
A-3.	Work pertaining to other bureaus	7
A-4.	Uncompleted work	8
A-5.	Ordnance and ordnance outfit	8
A-6.	Armor	12
A-7.	Miscellaneous articles	17
A-8.	Care of hull during construction	20
A-9.	Inspection	21
A-10.	Correspondence	21
A-11.	Weighing material	21
A-12.	Ratproofing	22
B-1.	Plans and specifications	23
B-2.	Changes	54
C-1.	Workmanship	55
C-2.	Length and size of plates and shapes	57
C-3.	Access to compartments	57
C-4.	Lightening, limber, drain, and air holes	58
C-5.	Overweight	58
C-6.	Materials	60
C-7.	Pickling and cleaning	71
C-8.	Galvanizing	71
C-9.	Painting, varnishing, and cementing	72
C-10.	Welding and riveting	74
C-11.	Threaded parts	84
D-1.	Testing, general requirements	85
D-2.	Compartment testing	85
D-3.	Tests of systems	91
D-4.	Tests of auxiliaries, appliances, and fittings	98
E-1.	Stem	116
E-2.	Rudder support assembly	116
F-1.	Transverse framing	116
G-1.	Outside plating	116

Section		Page
G-2.	Inner bottom and third skin	118
H-1.	Docking keels	119
H-2.	Bilge keels	120
H-3.	Longitudinals	120
H-4.	Vertical keel	122
H-5.	Stringers	123
H-6.	Breasthooks	124
I-1.	Decks and platforms, general	124
1-2.	Deck stanchions and pillars	143
1-3.	Deck coverings	147
1-9.	Main deck	155
I-10.	Flight deck	160
I-11.	Forecastle deck	167
1-13.	Platforms, flats, and bridges above main deck	168
1-14.	Galleries and walkways	170
1-15.	Flats below main deck	172
J-1.	Bulkheads, structural, other than torpedo defense bulkheads	173
J-2.	Torpedo defense bulkheads	196
K-1.	Access trunks	199
L-1.	Nonstructural bulkheads and partitions	199
L-2.	Insulation	200
M-1.	Shaft struts	212
M-2.	Shaft tubes and shaft-tube bearing supports	212
M-3.	Rudder	212
N-1.	Foundations and special framing	213
O-1.	Deck houses	216
O-5.	Windshields	219
P-1.	Masts	220
P-2.	Boat and airplane cranes	227
R-1.	Doors	238
R-3.	Hatches	239
R-4.	Manholes	242
R-5.	Scuttles	247
R-7.	Airports	247
R-8.	Deck lights	250
R-9.	Windows	251
R-10.	Insect screens	252

Section		Page
U-1.	Ammunition stowage	253
U-2.	Ammunition-handling appliances	262
U-5.	Boat handling and stowing	284
U-6.	Anchor-handling arrangement	295
U-7.	Winches and capstans	309
U-8.	Steering requirements	314
U-9.	Piping systems, general requirements	321
U-10.	Fuel-oil, gasoline, diesel oil, and lubricating oil systems	327
U-11.	Drainage, wing tank flooding and drainage, and fuel-oil compensating systems	346
U-12.	Flooding and sprinkling system	359
U-13.	Fire system	372
U-14.	Flushing system	376
U-15.	Fresh-water system	377
U-16.	Plumbing	383
U-17.	Internal draft gages	390
U-18.	Compressed air system	390
U-20.	Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning	393
U-22.	Voice tubes and mechanical communication appliances	416
U-23.	Chemical fire systems and fire extinguishers	417
U-24.	Airplane launching, handling, and stowage arrangements	424
U-25.	Palisades and life nets	446
U-26.	Airplane elevators	449
U-27.	Roller curtains	473
V-1.	Electric auxiliaries	475
V-2.	Spare parts (mechanical)	485
V-3.	Wrenches	487
V-4.	Protection for operating rods, gearing, wires, etc.	488
V-5.	General requirements for auxiliary machinery	489
W-1.	Compartments	492
W-2.	Officers' quarters	493
W-3.	Petty officers' and crew's quarters and berthing and messing for enlisted men	498
W-4.	Navigating, ship-control, and fire-control stations, including radio and communication stations	501
W-5.	Offices	519
W-6.	Hospital spaces	527

Section		Page
W-7.	Prisons	532
W-8.	Commissary spaces	532
W-9.	Utility spaces	545
W-10.	Machinery spaces, including auxiliary machinery spaces and workshops	555
W-11.	Ordnance spaces	575
W-12.	Storerooms and issue rooms	579
X-1.	Joiner work	610
X-2.	Locks, keys, and tags	611
X-3.	Complement	613
X-4.	Mattresses, pillows, and upholstering	624
Y-1.	Ladders and grab rods	625
Y-2.	Hatch davits, bars, and padeyes	630
Y-3.	Warping, mooring, and towing fittings	631
Y-4.	Rail and awning stanchions, and life rails	633
Y-5.	Spars	637
Y-6.	Pinrails, cleats, eyebolts, etc	639
Y-7.	Sounding platforms	639
Y-8.	Draft marks	639
Y-9.	Rubbing and chafing plates	640
Y-10.	Protectors, zinc and mild steel	540
Y-11.	Labeling	641
Y-12.	Canvas outfit	644
Y-13.	Rigging	645
Y-14.	Paravane gear	648
Y-15.	Propeller guards	649
Y-16.	Light-excluding curtains	649
Z-1.	Stowage of portable articles	650
Z-2.	Lockers	653
	Addenda	655
	Index	691