The Elements and Practice of Naval Architecture; Or: A Treatise on Ship-building, Theoretical and Practical, on the Best Principles Established in Great Britain. With Copious Tables of Dimensions, &c. Illustrated with a Series of Thirty-nine Large Draughts, ...

Steel and Company, 1812 - 465 páginas

BOOK THE FIRST	1

CHAPTER II	77

CHAPTER III	121

BOOK THE SECOND CONTAINING THE PRACTICAL RULES FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF SHIPS AND VESSELS WITH ALL THE REQUI...	187

CHAPTER II	192

Of the Gravity Displacement and Tonnage of a Ship c	194

Of finding the Tonnage or Burthen of Ships c	209

Methods of finding the Centres of Displacement and Gravity	220

The Nature and Use of the Canttimbers with the Methods of laying them down by Water Lines	312

To bevel the Canttimbers by Water Lines	314

Of laying down the Canttimbers by the Horizontal Ribband Lines	315

To lay down and take the Bevellings of the Canttimbers by the Horizontal Ribbands	317

Of the Utility of the Transoms with the Manner of laying them down	319

Of taking the Bevellings of the Transoms	322

To lay off the Transoms when canted	324

To bevel the Transoms when canted	327

Of the Determination of the Point of Stability or Metacentre	229

CHAPTER III	234

Of the Construction of the Sheerdraught of the Eighty Gun Ship from the given Dimensions	242

Of constructing the Body and Halfbreadth Plans with farther Observations on the Sheerdraught	253

An Explanation of the Nature and Use of the Diagonal Lines in the Bodyplan	263

Additional Observations on the Rising Line in general	265

Instructions for delineating the Disposition of all the Timbers composing the Frame likewise for expanding the Bottom and Topside by which the Le...	266

Instructions for delineating the Inboard Works of the Eighty Gun Ship with Observations on the Inboard Works of Ships in general	276

Instructions for delineating Plans of the Decks c	282

CHAPTER IV	287

Of the Moulds necessary to be made from the Parts which are already laid down	300

To take the Bevellings of the Timbers in the Square Body	309

Of laying off the Square Tuck	329

To lay down and take the Bevellings of the Hawsepieces by Horizontal Lines	335

Of laying down and bevelling the Hawsepieces when they are required to be sided less at the Heels	337

CHAPTER V	369

CHAPTER VII	399

TABLES FOR FORMING THE BODIES OF SHIPS AND VESSELS OF EACH CLASS

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LAYING OFF Plate 1 Fore Body and Moulds

XXXVI

Ixix	35

Título	The Elements and Practice of Naval Architecture; Or: A Treatise on Ship-building, Theoretical and Practical, on the Best Principles Established in Great Britain. With Copious Tables of Dimensions, &c. Illustrated with a Series of Thirty-nine Large Draughts, ...
Autor	David Steel
Edición	2
Editor	Steel and Company, 1812
Procedencia del original	Biblioteca Británica
Digitalizado	26 Oct 2016
N.º de páginas	465 páginas

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