The ground floor was a "present use store" and the upper floor was a mould loft.

The plans were expanded to full size on the floor of the mould loft, and station moulds, or templates, were built.

For ships the curves would be drawn up in full scaleon scrieve boards on the floor of what was called the mould loft.

Above them is the mould loft where the lines of HMS Victory were laid down.

Ships were designed by 'traditional methods', using block or half-block models to work out the hull shape and dimensions, which were laid off in the mould loft.

However, this does not effect access to most of the main exhibits with the exception of the Spinning Rooms and the Mould Loft in the Wooden Walls gallery.

The dock included a row of shipbuilding slips, a dry dock, and a single line of buildings including storehouses, offices, kilns, a mould loft, and a pitch house.

Comments: I served my time as an apprentice Electrician in the shipyards, and I saw many of these plans and planking chart in the Moulding Loft.

With the assistance of his son John, and his grandson John Rubie he moved his entire yard including demolishing and re-erecting the large graving shed and mould loft.

To prepare himself for the foreseeable managing role he moved from department to department, from machine shop to drawing office, from moulding loft to building yard, and gained experience in all aspects of the business.

Previously, loftsmen at the mould lofts of shipyards were responsible for taking the dimensions, and details from drawings and plans and translating this information into templates, battens, ordinates, cutting sketches, profiles, margins and other data.

Views of the Howland Great Dock from the 18th Century show that adjacent to Odessa Wharf, on the opposite side of Randall's Rents, were a series of sawpits, some of which have structures which look like mould lofts, used to store the moulds for forming ships.

This incensed Humphreys enough that Fox was soon assigned to the mold loft with William Doughty.

Non Metal Workshop (trial pond, mold loft, wooden ship and fiberglass ship workshop, wood dry oven)

In a process known as "molding", the dimensions of the framing pieces were chalked onto the floor of a mold loft where a template was formed using strips of light wood.

General Stores and Mold Loft Building-Harriman Yard of the Merchant Shipbuilding Corporation, also known as Manhattan Soap Company Warehouse, is a historic warehouse located at Bristol, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.