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Definition of Rider plate
1. Noun. A horizontal beam (or plate) connected to the top of a ship's vertical keel or to the keelson.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rider Plate
Literary usage of Rider plate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Steel Ships: Their Construction and Maintenance : a Manual for Shipbuilders by Thomas Walton (1908)
"The butts of vertical plate, rider plate, and angles should bo kept as clear from
each other as practicable. The centre keelson in B, fig. ..."
2. Steel Ships: Their Construction and Maintenance by Thomas Walton (1902)
"The butts of both centre plate and rider plate should be either strapped or ...
The butts of vertical plate, rider plate, and angles, should be kept as ..."
3. Present-day Shipbuilding: A Manual for Students and Ships' Officers for by Thomas Walton (1907)
"The butts of both centre plate and rider plate should be either strapped or
overlapped, and treble riveted. The butts of the angle bars should be connected ..."
4. Know Your Own Ship: A Simple Explanation of the Stability, Trim by Thomas Walton (1899)
"The centre keelson plate standing upon the top of the floors, together with its
rider plate, maintains the midship thickness for one-half the vessel's ..."
5. Lake Ship Yard Methods of Steel Ship Construction by Robert Curr (1907)
"62 shows part of the tank top in place and three plates on A strake, which is
more often called the rider plate. Two templates are shown in place for ..."
6. Strength of Ships by Athole James Murray (1916)
"D 38, the rider plate being omitted. The span between the outermost rivets of
the brackets is 15•25 ft. Assuming first that the brackets absolutely fix or ..."
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