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 31
re is little or no change in the areas of thehorizontal sections. For all practical purposes, in most ships, nogreat error is involved in assuming that twelve times the weightwhich would sink the ship one inch below her load-line will sinkher one foot, or that a similar rule holds for the same… … CHAP. I.] DISPLACEMENT AND BUOYANCY OF SHIPS. to the tons per inch immersion at the load-line, in terms of thelength and breadth of the ship, has therefore considerable value.Using the same symbols as before, viz.— Length of the ship at the load-line = L (feet),Breadth extreme „ „ = B „ we should…
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