"Speed under Sail, 1750-1850" Topic
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Tango01 | 01 Apr 2017 12:31 p.m. PST |
Free to read… link Amicalement Armand
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John Armatys | 01 Apr 2017 2:08 p.m. PST |
Clicking the link sadly gave an error "An error has occurred Go to Research Repository home java.util.NoSuchElementException: Timeout waiting for idle object" |
Blutarski | 01 Apr 2017 2:36 p.m. PST |
John - Paste "Speed under Sail, 1750-1850" into google search and you will see the website where the document can be downloaded in PDF. Byron |
ColCampbell | 01 Apr 2017 5:03 p.m. PST |
John, It may be your browser. With Chrome, I went right to the 32-page PDF document. Jim |
John Armatys | 01 Apr 2017 5:12 p.m. PST |
Thanks Byron – it worked. (I use IE). |
Blutarski | 01 Apr 2017 8:55 p.m. PST |
Interesting article. Many factors indeed contributed to the trend of increased speed performance. My opinion is that progress in speed of warships under sail was principally due to the steady growth of ship size. Between the 7YW and the French Revolution, the gundeck length of a 74 gun ship had increased by 8+ pct and length to beam ratio by 4+ pct. These combined to produce a longer and slimmer vessel better suited to make speed; the general growth in ship size also meant an increase in tonnage which made for a stiffer ship better able to carry its canvas in blowing weather. The other rates generally followed a similar trend designwise. Coppering did not, in and of itself, increase the speed potential of a given hull form. Its value was in dramatically reducing the rate at which underwater fouling accumulated, thereby increasing the time at sea during which a ship might make best use of its innate speed capability. B |
Tango01 | 02 Apr 2017 3:22 p.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed it my friend!. (smile) Amicalement Armand
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