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 116
nes: very fre*quently the heights at the load and light lines are nearly equal, and(as indicated on Fig. 36) the metacentric locus for all variations indraught occurring on service lies wholly below the load-line. In war-ships, on the contrary, that -locus usually lies wholly above the * For… … load-line, the ratio of breadth to load-draught being greater thanthe corresponding ratio for merchant ships. The range of draughtfrom the load to the light condition is much less for war-ships thanfor merchant ships. Metacentric diagrams are chiefly useful as a means of rapidlydetermining the…
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