Naval Architecture: A Treatise on Ship-building and the Rig of Clippers ; with Suggestions for a New Method of Laying Down VesselsColburn, 1852 - Всего страниц: 176 |
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... greater amount of interest than used formerly to be bestowed upon it . The rivalry which exists between the merchant navies of Great Britain , and her offspring in the Western World , has made each party seek , in the quality of their ...
... greater amount of interest than used formerly to be bestowed upon it . The rivalry which exists between the merchant navies of Great Britain , and her offspring in the Western World , has made each party seek , in the quality of their ...
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... greater velocity ) , and to fill the lines of the bow a little more , because this has not so great an effect in impeding the way , as lessening the taper of the stern . But yet merchant vessels labour under many disadvantages : those ...
... greater velocity ) , and to fill the lines of the bow a little more , because this has not so great an effect in impeding the way , as lessening the taper of the stern . But yet merchant vessels labour under many disadvantages : those ...
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... greater on a slow vessel than on a fast one . Suppose the wind had the force of a consi- derable storm ( viz . , 14.88 lbs . on each square foot ) , and moving at the rate of fifty - five miles an hour . Then , if one of two vessels ...
... greater on a slow vessel than on a fast one . Suppose the wind had the force of a consi- derable storm ( viz . , 14.88 lbs . on each square foot ) , and moving at the rate of fifty - five miles an hour . Then , if one of two vessels ...
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... greater speed ; whether , I mean , the ships of each class should not have a greater length in proportion to their breadth and depth . The reader will see that the science of ship- building becomes a more complicated question when it ...
... greater speed ; whether , I mean , the ships of each class should not have a greater length in proportion to their breadth and depth . The reader will see that the science of ship- building becomes a more complicated question when it ...
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... greater gripe , and a bow length- ened below the water . Is there then any principle in building ? he may ask ; is it all the work of blind chance ? The theo- rist rants about capacities and equal areas . The common sailor laughs and ...
... greater gripe , and a bow length- ened below the water . Is there then any principle in building ? he may ask ; is it all the work of blind chance ? The theo- rist rants about capacities and equal areas . The common sailor laughs and ...
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