Engine-room Practice: A Handbook for the Royal Navy and Mercantile Marine; Treating of the Management of the Main and Auxiliary Engines on Board Ship |
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Page 17 - KnOW Your Own Ship : A Simple Explanation of the Stability, Construction, Tonnage, and Freeboard of Ships. By THOS. WALTON, Naval Architect. With numerous Illustrations and additional Chapters on Buoyancy, Trim, and Calculations.
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Page 390 - II. Classification of Steel Ships. III. Considerations in making choice of Type of Vessel. — Framing of Ships. IV. Strains experienced by Ships. — Methods of Computing and Comparing Strengths of Ships. V. Construction of Ships. —Alternative Modes of Construction.
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