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 60
27 shows this; CA is the perpendicular line, andAB is the length required. If the ship was afloat when themeasurements for tonnage were made, the length AB could notbe taken; and to allow for the rake of the sternpost (BE), andthe consequent shortening of the keel, as compared with thelength along… … the back of the sternpost. Long after raking sternposts ceasedto be used in war-ships, a deduction continued to be made for the rake of a post which was upright, in order to secure a smalldiminution of the tonnage. By an additional act passed in 1819the length of the engine-room was also deducted…
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