The resulting vibration broke the shaft bracket and tore a large hole in the hull.

The huge propellor shaft bracket stands in the workshops, dwarfing the man posing for the photograph.

This is usually called a shaft bracket but the part of it which extends below the shaft bearing to protect the lower part of the propeller is also a skeg.

On her departure from Barrow on 5 June to rejoin the fleet, she grounded and sustained major damage to her underwater fittings, including her shaft brackets and propellers.

The management of the construction was flawed from the start: the stem and sternposts, rudder frame, and propeller shaft brackets were not ordered in time, and the late discovery of this omission substantially delayed progress.

A propulsion package procured from VEEM will usually include all the components in the shaftline from the gearbox coupling - aft and including the propeller, shafts, shaft brackets, bearings, seals and rudders.

The propeller shaft external shaft bracket failed, and the movement of the unsupported shaft then tore up the bulkheads all the way from the external propeller shaft gland through to B Engine Room itself.

In common with a number of the other BR Standard Classes, the chassis design used a number of LMS-designed components including Brake Hanger Brackets, Flexible Stretcher Brackets and Reversing Shaft Brackets.