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Transom (nautical), Transoms
Transom may refer to: * Transom (architecture), a bar of wood or stone across the top of a door or window, or the window above such a bar * Transom (nautical), that part of the stern of a vessel where the two sides of its hull meet * Operation Transom, a World War II bombing raid on Surabaya in Java * Transom knot The transom knot is a simple lashing knot used to secure two linear objects, such as spars, at right angles to each other. Relation to other knots While often described in relation to the constrictor knot, the underlying structure of the transo ..., a simple lashing knot * '' Tug Transom'', a British daily comic strip {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transom (architecture)
In architecture, a transom is a transverse horizontal structural beam or bar, or a crosspiece separating a door from a window above it. This contrasts with a mullion, a vertical structural member. Transom or transom window is also the customary U.S. word used for a transom light, the window over this crosspiece. In Britain, the transom light is usually referred to as a fanlight, often with a semi-circular shape, especially when the window is segmented like the slats of a folding hand fan. A prominent example of this is at the main entrance of 10 Downing Street, the official residence of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. History In early Gothic ecclesiastical work, transoms are found only in belfry unglazed windows or spire lights, where they were deemed necessary to strengthen the mullions in the absence of the iron stay bars, which in glazed windows served a similar purpose. In the later Gothic, and more especially the Perpendicular Period, the introduction of tran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transom (nautical)
In some boats and ships, a transom is the aft transverse surface of the hull that forms the stern of a vessel. Historically, they are a development from the canoe stern (or "double-ender") wherein which both bow and stern are pointed. Transoms add both strength and width to the stern. They may be flat or curved and they may be vertical, raked forward (known as retroussé), or raked aft. In small boats and yachts, this flat termination of the stern is typically above the waterline, but large commercial vessels often exhibit vertical transoms that dip slightly beneath the water. On cruising boats, a counter stern may be truncated to form a "truncated counter stern", in which there is a part of the stern that approximates a transom. Although that standard stern transom is typically vertical, they may be raked such that there is an overhang above the water, as at the bow. A reverse transom is angled from the waterline forwards. On smaller boats such as dinghies, transoms may be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Transom
Operation Transom was an attack by Allies of World War II, Allied forces against the Japanese-occupied city of Surabaya on the Indonesian island of Java during World War II. Conducted by the British-led Eastern Fleet, the operation took place on 17 May 1944 and involved American and British carrier-based aircraft bombing the city's docks and an oil refinery. An American torpedo bomber was shot down, and two British torpedo bombers were lost in accidents. The attack on Surabaya was the second, and final, joint American-British aircraft carrier raid in the Indian Ocean during 1944. It was undertaken to divert Japanese forces from the Battle of Wakde, Allied landing on Wakde island off New Guinea and make use of the American aircraft carrier on its return voyage to the Pacific. The warships involved in the operation sailed from Ceylon and refuelled in Western Australia before reaching the waters south of Java, where the carriers' aircraft were launched. On the morning of 17 May two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transom Knot
The transom knot is a simple lashing knot used to secure two linear objects, such as spars, at right angles to each other. Relation to other knots While often described in relation to the constrictor knot, the underlying structure of the transom knot is the strangle knot. The introduction of a second, perpendicular spar into a loose strangle knot tied around another spar will illustrate this point. In relation to the upper spar, the crossings of the knot come to very closely resemble those of a constrictor knot. Perhaps because of this Clifford Ashley described the transom knot as both "a modification of" and "closely related to"Ashley, p. 215 the constrictor knot. Despite these descriptions the transom knot is consistently illustrated in ''The Ashley Book of Knots'' as being based on a strangle knot. Use Suggested for binding kite sticks by Ashley,Ashley, p. 225 it is useful generally as a light-duty or temporary square lashing A lashing is an arrangement of rope, wire, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
