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DURING the last ten or twelve years, no fewer than twenty-two papers have been contributed to the transactions of the Institution of Naval Architects, the North-East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders and other bodies, by the members of the staff of the William Froude Laboratory, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington. Among these papers are six on the effect of weather conditions on the propulsion of ships, seven on the manœuvring of ships and six on the efficiency of screw propellers. The other papers deal with the hulls of flying boats and ship propulsion data. Needless to say, all the papers are of permanent value and they have now been re-issued as vol. 23 of the Collected Researches of the National Physical Laboratory (London: H.M. Stationery Office. 20s. net). Arrangements have also been made to publish them in five groups. Each paper is preceded by a short abstract and the volume has an adequate index, but the reprint does not contain reports of the discussions, for which reference will have to be made to the transactions of the various societies. The majority of the papers, of course, deal with investigations carried out with models in the Alfred Yarrow Tank, but three of Mr. Kent's papers on the effect of weather conditions on the propulsion of ships contain his observations made on several voyages across the Atlantic in rough weather, when the routine of the laboratory was abandoned for all the discomforts of the sea.
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Ship Researches at the William Froude Laboratory. Nature 131, 162–163 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131162d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/131162d0