... be so constructed that the entrance of water by perforation would not extensively flood the ship, unless it took place at a great number of critical places. Indeed, by introducing an underwater deck, with divisional spaces, and by the partial application... Marine Engineer and Motorship Builder - Page 2441882Full view - About this book
| English literature - 1882 - 592 pages
...is generally supposed ; because the unarmoured ship, though freely penetrable, may be so constructed that the entrance of water by perforation would not...distribution of coal for the same purpose, an unarmoured ship may be rendered almost incapable of being sunk ; and it is rather surprising that so little attention... | |
| Marine engineering - 1882 - 648 pages
...generally supposed ; because the uñarmoured ship, though freely penetrable, might be so constructed that the entrance of water by perforation would not...proper distribution of coal for the same purpose, an unarrooured ship might be rendered almost incapable of being sunk ; and it was rather surprising that... | |
| Engineering - 1882 - 566 pages
...entrance of water by perforation could not extensively flood the ship, unless it took place at ¡i great number of critical places. Indeed, by introducing...proper distribution of coal for the same purpose. an unarmored ship might be rendered almost incapable of being sunk ; and it was rather surpi'ising that... | |
| 1882 - 588 pages
...is generally supposed; because the unarmoured ship, though freely penetrable, may be so constructed that the entrance of water by perforation would not...divisional spaces, and by the partial application of cork, aa in the " Inflexible," for displacing influent water, and thereby preserving stability, and also... | |
| United States. Office of Naval Intelligence, William Bainbridge-Hoff - Naval tactics - 1884 - 224 pages
...generally supposed ; because the imarmored ship, though freely penetrable, might be so constructed that the entrance of water by perforation would not...proper distribution of coal for the same purpose, an unarmored ship might be rendered almost incapable of being sunk; and it was rather surprising that... | |
| Naval history - 1884 - 412 pages
...penetrable, might be so constructed that the entrance of water by perforation would not extensively Hood the ship, unless it took place at a great number of...critical places. Indeed, by introducing an underwater duck with divisional spaces, and by the partial application of cork, as in the Inflexible, for displacing... | |
| Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - Civil engineering - 1882 - 510 pages
...is generally supposed ; because the unarmoured ship, though freely penetrable, may be so constructed that the entrance of water by perforation would not...proper distribution of coal for the same purpose, an nnarmoured ship may be rendered almost incapable of being sunk ; and it is rather surprising that so... | |
| Military art and science - 1882 - 530 pages
...is generally supposed; because the unarmoured ship, though freely penetrable, may be so constructed that the entrance of water by perforation would not...extensively flood the ship, unless it took place at a greater number of critical places. Indeed, by introducing an underwater deck, with divisional spaces,... | |
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