The bridge, deck, and chart-house rails and stanchions were damaged, and also some of the hatches.
Both fences are to ensure safety and are made of steel motorway-type barriers and reinforced steel mesh on steel stanchions.
The steel is very light and the whole structure of the house is carried on stanchions instead of on the walls of the house.
There are no mild steel load-bearing stanchions in such houses.
The guard chains of the gangway were secured to iron stanchions by rope lashings.
I gather that the problems with the houses are mainly to do with the deterioration of the tube-reinforced stanchions.
With regard to stanchions, the inquiry will not be inhibited in any aspect.
A substantial proportion of the grant would be buried capital, out of sight in the earth, to provide the concrete stanchions to support the factory.
