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A manual of naval architecture. For the use of officers of the Royal Navy, officers of the Mercantile Marine, shipbuilders, shipowners, and yachtsmen

White, W. H. (William Henry), Sir, 1845-1913 · 1889 · London, J. Murray · 77 pictures

A technical manual of naval architecture by William Henry White, published by John Murray in London in 1889 for Royal Navy and merchant marine officers, shipbuilders, shipowners and yachtsmen. The plates are numbered line diagrams: hull sections heeling against a waterline, force arrows and moment triangles, spiral stability curves plotted on ruled grids, and cutaway beams with hatched fractures, offering designers labelled engineering geometry and dotted construction lines.

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