This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ...The ship-owner who, discarding all measures of length, breadth and depth, as such, looking primarily to the elements of his vessel as developed by the distribution of buoyancy and capacity determined by the cylindroid, is he who will be the most successful. The. reader perhaps imagines an incoherence in this chapter. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ...The ship-owner who, discarding all measures of length, breadth and depth, as such, looking primarily to the elements of his vessel as developed by the distribution of buoyancy and capacity determined by the cylindroid, is he who will be the most successful. The. reader perhaps imagines an incoherence in this chapter. The author has been attempting to demonstrate the importance of adjusting the bulk and distributing the buoyancy first, and making all other questions subordinate to these; again, he has shown the necessity of adjusting the internal capacity, and has given this prominence above all other questions; and now he is endeavoring to prove that the sagging sheer for vessels, which has from time immemorial been regarded as the grand element of beauty, is a deformity and a fruitful cause of disaster not to be tolerated. The reader may perhaps be a ship-owner, a navigator, a marine surveyor, possibly a ship-builder, or a minor, endeavoring to learn the art and mystery of ship-building, and is inclined to inquire, "How can these things be?" how can all these elements of proposed improvements be embodied in the design of a sea-going vessel? No doubt the conclusion has been arrived at, that while harmonizing the major, the minor parts of necessity will be uncared for, and the problem be left even more difficult in the future than it has been in the past. To be more explicit, we may remark, that doubtless with many it is regarded as impossible to harmonize greater utility with greater capacity, lighter draught (relatively) with greater strength, speed, durability, hygienic conditions, and sea qualities, in improved measure, in the same vessel, than we now have. Such vagaries have predominated in all the past on those questions pertaining to the int...
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