Identifier: monthlynauti118541855newy (find matches)
Title: Monthly nautical magazine, and quarterly review
Year: 1854 (1850s)
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Subjects: Shipbuilding
Publisher: New York : Griffiths, Bates
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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d the more difficult tostop the leak—deep ships require to be ballasted to obtain sta-bility, shallow ships do not. Although deep ships have somany disadvantages, a shallow wide ship formed upon the com-mon wedge-shaped principle has disadvantages which counter-balance all these: for instance, the resistance to the onward mo-tion of such a ship would be lessened in proportion as her lengthexceeds her greatest breadth ; so that if her breadth were great,she would lessen the resistance to her motion only to a verytrifling extent; consequently, she would be a very slow sailer ;moreover, in a side-wind the pressure against the sails wouldtend to drive her sideways to almost the same extent as to driveher forward ; these disadvantages are entirely obviated in thenew incline plane principle hereafter described. Ship-builders and men of nautical experience will require noexplanation at our hands to appreciate the utter worthlessnessof the proposed improvement, as shown in figures 11 and 13
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Lipscombe s Improvements in Modelling Ships. 85 from the circular of this British Patentee ; and in addition,, wewill draw the body-plan to complete the entertainment, (Fig. 14.)

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