Text-book of theoretical naval architecture (1889)
Attwood, Edward L. (Edward Lewis), 1871- · London, New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and Co. · leaf 176
curves of righting levers for a merchant vessel in two givenconditions, A for the light condition at a displacement of1500 tons, and B for the load condition at a displacement of3500 tons. Looking simply at these curves, it would bethought that the ship in the light condition had the… … righting moments in the light condition, and curve B the curveof righting moments in the load condition, we see that theship in the light condition has very much less stability than inthe load condition. We see that the following are the important features of acurve of statical stability :— (a)…
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