Your project is going to be 10 feet wide by 50 feet long and 8â³ of crushed stone is needed for the depth. Here is your workup. 10â² X 50â² X .66â³ / 27 = 12.22 cubic yards. 12.22 + 5 percent = 12.83 cubic yards. You would need to order 13 cubic yards of material for your project.
Fact 4: A Soapy Launch. The Titanic weighed in at a reported 660 tonnes and to launch her from the top of of the slipway at Thompson dry dock look around 23 tonnes of soap and grease. This quantity of lubricant enabled the Titanic to move from the slipway into the water on the River Lagan in just 62 seconds.
The shell plating was completed by April 1910 and she was launched on the 20th October 1910. She was completed by the end of May 1911. Construction of the Titanic started after the Olympic in order to reduce the precurement pressures of such building programme. She was laid on the 31st March 1909. She was framed by the 6th April 1910, her steel shell plating completed by the 19th October 1910 and was ready for launching on the 31st May 1911.