Mechanical and marine engineering science ... Specially written as a handbook to the Board of Trade examinations for extra-first-class engineers (1909)
Somerscales, A. N · Glasgow : J. Munro; London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent · leaf 256
floats with one edge uppermost and has stabilityin that position. (A similar prism of hard wood floats with a flatside uppermost.) Now load the prism at one edge with a bit of,sheet lead so as to make it as nearas possible of the same specificgravity as water. (A little saltput into the water is… … ;254 -.lAtirUTY OF SHIPS. The special property possessed by a submarine body as regardsstability is that no matter what its form is—circular, rectangTilar, •or ship shape—the centre of buoyancy does not change its position :in the body as the vessel heels. For since the body is entirelyimmersed its…
Naval architecture
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