Year: 1894 Language: english Author: W.H. White Genre: Manual Publisher: John Murray Edition: 3rd Format: PDF Quality: Scanned pages + text layer Pages count: 764 Description: This manual is the 3rd edition of a bestseller of the time, first published in 1877. Originally aimed to officers studying in the Royal Naval College, it later also became a classic for officers of the Mercantile Marine, yachtsmen, shipowners and shipbuilders, due to an innovative approach and a clear explanation that has made it popular to sailors and seamen, as well as to naval architects or shipbuilders. In short this book was intended to supply that want, and to enable persons, outside the profession of the naval architect, to obtain a general acquaintance with the principles of the construction, propulsion, and behaviour of ships. Topics cover the basics of displacement, buoyancy and stability of a ship, oscillation, motion at sea and wave theory, structure, resistance and seaworthiness, sail and steam propulsion, propellers and steering systems.
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A Manual of Naval Architecture
Language: english
Author: W.H. White
Genre: Manual
Publisher: John Murray
Edition: 3rd
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages + text layer
Pages count: 764
Description: This manual is the 3rd edition of a bestseller of the time, first published in 1877. Originally aimed to officers studying in the Royal Naval College, it later also became a classic for officers of the Mercantile Marine, yachtsmen, shipowners and shipbuilders, due to an innovative approach and a clear explanation that has made it popular to sailors and seamen, as well as to naval architects or shipbuilders. In short this book was intended to supply that want, and to enable persons, outside the profession of the naval architect, to obtain a general acquaintance with the principles of the construction, propulsion, and behaviour of ships. Topics cover the basics of displacement, buoyancy and stability of a ship, oscillation, motion at sea and wave theory, structure, resistance and seaworthiness, sail and steam propulsion, propellers and steering systems.
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