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Ship Manœuvring Characteristics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2010

J. A. H. Paffett
J. A. H. Paffett
Affiliation:
(Superintendent, Ship Division, National Physical Laboratory)
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Successful ship handling depends upon acquiring the right information, making the right decisions and performing the right manœuvres; this paper concentrates upon the last of these. Manœuvring here is taken to include starting, stopping and steering. The ship is a vehicle with remarkably low resistance to motion; merchant ship drags commonly lie in the range one-hundredth to one-thousandth of the all-up weight force. This is comparable with that of a railway wagon (say 1/500 of its weight) and the low drag accounts in part for the ship's extreme economy as a carrying machine.

Type
Marine Traffic Engineering
Information
The Journal of Navigation , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , July 1972 , pp. 402 - 404
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1972

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