The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 168
and the water to flowfrom it through the apertures, until the gunwale becomes elevated toa heiglit above the surface of the sea, corresponding to the differencein height between the apertures and the gunwale—the crew can theneasily throw out the remainder of the water. Boats intended to beused… … Tlie annexed figure is a transverse section of a boat, constructedaccording to this invention, a, a, are the side and bottom planks;b, b, the ribs; c, c, the thwarts; (/, d, the internal bottom boards; e,e,the raisings or rails under the thwarts; _/, one of the tubular vesselsattached thereto; g,…
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