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 327
excess (or defect) of buoyancyat that place. Where the curve of buoyancy lies outside the curveof weight (reckoning from the base-line AB), buoyancy is in excess;where the curve of weight lies outside, the weight is in excess; atthe sections where the curves cross, the weight and buoyancy areequal,… … correspond to those in Fig. 107; and on any ordinate of those curvesthe intercept (say QR) is measured and transferred to the correspond-ing ordinate QR in Fig. 108, being set above the base-line AB whenthe buoyancy is in excess, and below when the weight is in excess.The curve LLL drawn through…
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