Ship Form, Resistance, and Screw Propulsion

Abstract

THE author of this book is the superintendent of the William Froude experimental tank at the National Physical Laboratory, and it is with the results of model experiments in this and other such tanks that the greater part of the book is concerned. While there is little new material in the book, it forms a valuable collection of collated data in ship form and resistance research, and from this point of view should be useful to the student of naval architecture and to the designer to whom the services of an experimental tank are available. Full reference has been made throughout to the work of Taylor, Biles, Froude, and Peabody. Such research results as the author considers to be of permanent value have been collected and analysed, and although opinions will differ as to the value of much of the great mass of matter which has been ignored, the book shows evidence of much care in sorting and examining published data.