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 524
l-bowed ship, for example, should have a greater propor-tionate distance between the two centres than a ship of the sameextreme dimensions and draught, but with a finer entrance. Inships trimming considerably by the stern, and with a clean run,tlie distance between the centres should be made… … common value. The greater distance (one-fourteenth) occurredin the old sailing ships of the Royal Navy, with full bows andclean runs; this has been almost equalled in some of the latermasted ironclads, where the centre of effort has been placed one-sixteenth of the length before the centre of…
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