Excerpt from Know Your Own Ship: A Simple Explanation of the Stability, Trim, Construction, Tonnage, and Freeboard of Ships, Together With a Fully Worked Out Set of the Usual Ship Calculations (From Drawings), Specially Arranged for the Use of Ships' Officers, Superintendents, EngineersIn its enlarged and improved form, it is hoped that this volume will meet with the same cordial acceptance which has been the chief characteristic of its history during its three years' existence.Extracted largely from a paper read by the Author before the Ship masters' Society, London, November, 1897.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.