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 619
other supplementary methods of increasing the turn-ing power of ships. Two kinds of rudders require to be noticed. First, the ordinaryrudder, which rotates about an axis near its foremost edge, and ishung to the sternpost of the ship. Fig. 127 shows the commonarrangement in a single-screw ship. AA… … plan, AB represents tlie rudder put over to port, the helm beinga-starboard. In sailing ships, paddle-steamers, jet-propelled ves-sels, and twin-screw ships, theordinary rudder is hung to theafter end of the ship, there beingonly one stern post in such vessels.Fig. 128 shows the commouarrangement…
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