When a ship is built, where do they put the last rivet ?

Question

When a ship is built, where do they put the last rivet ?

Answer 1

In the last hole.

Answer 2

they are all welded now so no last rivet

Answer 3

hpefully in the right place lol im an aviation man sry

Answer 4

The mythical "Golden Rivet". Any seaman will tell you what that is!!

Answer 5

in the last empty hole

Answer 6

It goes under the mast - into its base - it holds the penny on (for good luck)! Seriously!

Answer 7

An interesting question which seems to get asked about every three months or so.

The simple answer is in the last hole.

Answer 8

Never bend down looking for it!

Answer 9

in the last hole

Answer 10

there is an ancient ritual accompanying that act....when boats were ( and still are, see my photo) built in wood it was called "hanging the shutter plank" and everyone  had a celebration because that part of the job was done.  The building trades still do this with a tree, called "topping out".

A boat is a vast collection of different curves, and each wood plank...or line of plates to be riveted,,,are slightly different from the one above and below.

Almost always, for ease of construction, you start at a known line on the bottom.......the keel, shape the lowest plank to fit it, the nest one up to fit the first etc......

you also have a known line at the top..the deck edge or the "sheer" so you start there and work down.

Eventually the two lines of planks or strakes meet, and for ease of work that is usually somewhere around the water line because it is a tricky plank to fit and you want to be working waist high and not overhead...

so the last rivet would be somewhere along the waterline areas of most ships, and probably amidships......

SOMEWHERE in the Universe I once saw picture of the last rivet ceremony for a big passenger ship.....maybe Queen Mary I.....there's a web search for you!

Answer 11

EBAY

Answer 12

Would that be the last rivet that should have gone into the ship (flat pac version). You know the one. "Well there must have been one to many in the packet. I'm sure it will stay afloat without it". Chief engineer on the Titanic.