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 271
ossible in the present state of our knowledgeto predict the worst possible combination of circumstances toAvhich a sailing ship may be liable, it is possible to trace herbehaviour, with fair approximation to accuracy, when a certainset of conditions has been selected. This can be done bymeans of an… … fembles that described forFig. 71a. Measurements along the base-lineOrdinates of wave slope slope of thesurf;ice to thecorrespondinginstant from represent time.the curve ofrepresent theeffective wavehorizon at thetime. At thewhich time is counted, the ship is assumed tohave her masts inclined 20…
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