 | Sir George Charles Vincent Holmes - 1900 - 192 pàgines
...had to fulfil, and also that they understood the art, which was subsequently lost, to be revived only in modern times, of shaping the underwater portion...resistance to the passage of the vessel through the water. The only part of the structural design to which any serious exception can be taken is the very slight... | |
 | John W. Grant - 1917 - 256 pàgines
...model and workmanship the vessel is a masterpiece of beauty of lines and symmetrical proportions, nor could she be surpassed today by any man connected with the art of designing or building ships.' If this can be said of a vessel built t E. Keble Chatterton on Sailing Ships. • nearly 1,000 years... | |
 | Tom Davin - 2003 - 360 pàgines
...of shipbuilding, and that they understood the art, which was subsequently lost, to be revived only in modern times, of shaping the underwater portion...connected with the art of designing or building ships. Certainly a strong statement, in view of the fact that we have a thousand years' more experience, but... | |
 | Thomas Fleming Day - 1913 - 754 pàgines
...of shipbuilding, and that they understood the art, which was subsequently lost, to be revived only in modern times, of shaping the underwater portion...connected with the art of designing or building ships." Certainly a strong statement, in view of the fact that we have a thousand years' more experience, but... | |
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It is the opinion of experts in naval architecture that for model and workmanship this vessel is a masterpiece, nor for beauty of lines and symmetrical proportions could she be surpassed today by any man connected with the art of designing or building... 