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 30
m the drawings of the ship, in the manner beforementioned. Then a line AB is drawn, the point A representing theunder side of the keel, and the length AB representing the meandraught of the ship when fully laden; this mean draught beinghalf the sum of the draughts of water forward and aft. Through… … tons of displacement. Suppose the displacement to have beenalso calculated up to another water-line (represented by DE inthe diagram) parallel to and at a known distance below the load-line (BO). Then on DE a length is set off representing this seconddisplacement on the same scale as was used for…
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