 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Commerce - 1852 - 882 pages
...Btralght line along the rabbit of the koel, from the back of the main stern-post to a perpendicular line from the fore part of the main stem under the bowsprit, from which subtracting 3-Silis of the breach, the remainder shall be esteemed the just length of the keel ю find... | |
 | Shipbuilding - 1855 - 614 pages
...along the rabbet of the keel of the ship, from the back of the main stern-post to a perpendicular line from the fore part of the main stem under the bowsprit, from which subtracting three-fifths of the breadth, the remainder shall be esteemed the just length of the keel... | |
 | P. R. Marett - 1872 - 150 pages
...lower side of the rabbet of the keel, from the back of the main stern-post to a perpendicular line from the fore part of the main stem under the bowsprit, from which, subtracting three-fifths of the breadth, the remainder shall be esteemed the just length of the keel... | |
 | Sir George Charles Vincent Holmes - Shipbuilding - 1900 - 192 pages
...was measured along the rabbet of the keel, from the back of the sternpost to a perpendicular dropped from the fore part of the main stem, under the bowsprit. From the length thus obtained, a deduction equal to three-fifths of the breadth (measured as below explained)... | |
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Threefifths of the Breadth, the Remainder shall be esteemed the just Length of the Keel to find the Tonnage, — and the Breadth shall be taken from the Outside of the outside Plank in the broadest Part of the... 
