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 119
as in ordinary types. Onthe other hand, there are certain forms for which the metacentricmethod applies to even greater inclinations, or even for all possibleinclinations. The well-known cigar-ships exemplify the last-namedcondition. All transverse sections of these ships are circles. SupposeFig.… … original water-line is marked W^ and the original centre ofbuoyancy BJ the new centre of buoyancy B determines the verticalline of action (BM) of the buoyancy, which intersects the original * See a paper by Mr. A. Denny, onThe Practical Application of Stability Calculations: Transactions of the…
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