Suffolk and Berkshire, Henry Charles Howard, Earl of, 1833-1898, Peek, Hedley, Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1870-1918 · London : Lawrence and Bullen · leaf 624
t of the greatest importance as meanstowards securing accuracy and fairness of thewater-lines and frame stations, are buttock andbow-lines, and diagonals. The former repre-sent the intersection with the contour of thehull surface of imaginary vertical planes parallelwith the centre plane of the… … Valkyrie. the vessel, and of the contour of the forwardend and bow. The diagonals represent theintersection with the hull surface of imaginaryplanes, which are arranged to be as nearlyperpendicular to that surface as po.ssible wherecurvature is greatest; hence they are most valu-able checks upon…
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