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11 July 90 degrees accident Alexander Stephen angles of inclination ballast board the ship boats boilers Broomielaw builders byelaw calculations capsizing cause centre of buoyancy CENTRE OF FORM centre of gravity chain closed Clyde Navigation Clyde Trustees Commissioner course curve of stability Daphne displacement drag DRAUGHT OF WATER Elgar engines evidence feet firm flag floating fore give Glasgow Govan Hammonia high water inches initial stability inquiry JOHN ELDER large number launching condition launching draught letter Linthouse lurch M'Master main deck Mansel materials matter Messrs metacentric height Naval Architects opinion owners passing Pearce plates port side positive stability present Professor Roberton question regard Reith Renfrew Ferry river shipbuilders signal Sir Edward spar deck square section stability of ships starboard side statement steamer stern suppose taken things tide tons upright position vessel water ports witness yard
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Page 9 - ... abnormal deficiencies of stability in inclined positions. The Daphne herself possessed not only small stability, but a slow growth of it with increase of inclination. No curve of stability at the launching draught had at that time been calculated for any ship. Sufficient initial stability had been always regarded in ordinary ships as a guarantee of sufficient stability at all angles. Even the highest of our authorities at home had assumed this to be the case. All this proved, however, to be quite...
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Page 55 - Every master or other person in charge of any vessel passing, or being in the river in the vicinity of any launch, shall observe the signals above provided to be displayed in the small boats, and shall not pass the same until the launch has taken place or the said signals be withdrawn.
Page 59 - I may say that there has never been any suggestion of any kind made as to the stability, or doubts about the fitness, of the vessel.