A manual of naval architecture. For the use of officers of the Royal Navy, officers of the Mercantile Marine, shipbuilders, shipowners, and yachtsmen (1889)
White, W. H. (William Henry), Sir, 1845-1913 · London, J. Murray · leaf 133
so that she draws 24 feet forward and 25feet aft, the change of trim would be 2 feet, because she wouldthen trim only one foot by the stern. In short, change oftrim expresses the sum of the increase in draught at one endand decreasa in draught at the other; so that, if the vessel beinclined… … w is shifted longitudinally along the deck from A to C througha distance d, we shall have, by similar reasoning to that givenin the case of the inclining experiment, the centre of gravitymoving parallel to the deck, and Shift of centre of gravity (GGi) =—^ d CHAP. III. STATICAL STABILITY OF SHIPS.…
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