A manual of naval architecture for the use of officers of the Royal Navy, officers of the Mercantile Marine, yachtsmen, shipowners, and shipbuilders (1894)
White, W. H. (William Henry), Sir, 1845-1913 · London : J. Murray · leaf 114
r fixing the position of the meta-centre in any new design. By means of a series of such calculations, it is possible to con-struct a diagram—termed the metacentric diagram —showing thevertical positions of the metacentre and the centre of buoyancy forany mean draught of water between the deep… … ships subjected to great variations of draught. The construction isvery simple. Any horizontal line W^ (Fig. 36) is taken to repre-sent the maximum load-line of the ship. Through any point W,on it a vertical line ^d&-\ is drawn: the depth of the centre ofbuoyancy corresponding to the load-line…
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