The Alsace: Battleship to Head France's Navy in the 1940's
The Alsace Class was a planned battleship design that would mark France’s departure from the guidelines of the Washington Naval Treaty. They …
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Anchor Designs and Types
A ships anchor is used to prevent the ship from drifting from its location due to wind and tidal currents, larger ships having two bow and one stern …
Continue ReadingThe Story Behind Finding HMS Investigator
Canadian researchers have located a sailing ship that became stuck in ice over 150 years ago. The ship had been on a rescue mission itself, searching …
Continue ReadingHow to Identify - and Survive - Dangerous Rip Currents
Swimming at the beach is a good exercise as well as recreation, but only when done carefully. Among the dangers that can engulf you are the rip …
Continue ReadingThe Warble Narrowboat
Warble Narrowboats was a highly regarded canal boat building company that carried out construction to their own designs at their boatyard in Hyde, …
Continue ReadingFluid Dynamics - Evaluating Reynolds Transport Theorem
Newtons laws of motion may be applicable ideally for bodies belonging to identified systems, however in fluid dynamics, for a control fluid volume in …
Continue ReadingMetacentric Height and Stability - Why Ships Tend to Stay Upright
Optimizing extreme stability becomes an important factor when it comes to designing ships. Determining the metacentric height, which is decisively …
Continue ReadingBoat Building Methods - Cruise Ships
Learn about boat building methods and specifically how cruise ships differ from normal commercial cargo carriers as far as ship building processes are …
Continue ReadingAircraft Carrier Armor: Comparison of Armoured to Unarmoured Flight Deck Designs
In the early years of naval aviation the question of aircraft carrier armor occupied the intellectual effort of numerous naval engineers. Two main …
Continue ReadingEngineering Disasters: The Failure, Explosion, and Sinking of the Piper Alpha Platform
The Occidental Piper Alpha was built at McDermott’s Offshore Construction Yard, starting production as an oil production platform in the North Sea in …
Continue ReadingKursk, Member of the Oscar Class - Project 949
The series of cruise missile submarines known to the west as the “Oscar Class” were designed and built in the Soviet era for the explicit …
Continue ReadingThe Mystery of Low Barometric Pressure
Low pressure of the atmosphere is a phenomenon that is avoided by the mariners. Learn about the mystery of low barometric pressure and in which …
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