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THE BULBOUS BOW

CAN IT WIN THE "BLUE

RIBAND?"

--

THE CHINA MAIL,

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Roma idea of the possibilities In this direction. The results of these tests are given in detail in a paper by nie, published in tho! Transactions of the Institution of Naval Architects for 1918.

WAR

"A 16-foot model of ordinary proportions, prismatic co-efficient 0.65, stem a vertical line, given a very fine fore end. This associated with a very much cut was tested, and then the bow away stem, and we know that for was cut back 0.5ft., the water lines low speeds, for fixed dimensions and being left rather blunt. The re- displacement, the spoon bow is ar aistance was 4 per cent, worse than good, and sometimca a little better, before. It was then cut back than a "ship shapo" end. A third another 0.5ft., and, the form was HOLT EXPERIMENT

example is to be found in all our found to bo 13 per cent. worse than submarines. Many years ago it the original over the practical London-The two new Norddeuis-

This cutting back! cher Lloyd liners "Europa" and was established that when wholly speed range. "Bremen' will be placed on the At-submerged, the blunt ended or bul was done from keel to deck, and it bous bow was less resistful than resulted in the prismatic co- lantic service next April, and they the sharp ended form. The bulb efficient increasing to 0.67 and propose to be the fastest ships on

ous bow is adopted in all modern 0.59 respectively. Without com- the route. Twenty-eight knots is

air ships for the same reason. menting on this I pass to the next the speed they promise, and with this thoy threaten to regain the

example." "blue riband" of the Atlantic from the Cunard liner "Mauretania," which won it from the Gormans in 1907. The feature in design in the two new German ships which is ex- pected to bring this victory about Is the new bullous bow.

A Defect

"Many of our war vessels have their stems rounded, and this gives thom a half hearted sort of bulbous: "This was a form of prismatic co- stem. Now in any ship going at ufficient 0.75, having 30 per cent. high speed there is always some parallel middle body, the fore end spray thrown up from the crest of with alight hollow at the load line After its the bow wave. In a destroyer with and a vertical stem. good flare this is caught by the tests this model was given bulbour out. flare and comes trickling off the bow lines by filling them sides at the break of the forecastle. The alteration started from one- When the ship has a rounded stem seventh the length from the stem, coming out of water, at high speed and the bulbous form of the levels this spray is greatly increased, and was finished with a fine oval line I have seen it on one of our larg- rather than the nearly semi-circular on the German claims for speedest warships, at thirty knots, ris-one used in the earlier form.

In a special interview with "The Journal of Commerce" Mr. G. S. Baker, an international authority on ship design and the superintendent of the William Froude National Tank at Teddington, throws doubt

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amount equal mist over the deck in fine weather. then cut back an

to one-eightieth of the length, and Alfred Holt'a Trial: "The bulbous bow can be worked the lines were again given as good The

in three different ways, or an oval finish as possible.

any

combination of them:

are the latest examples. Like many

resistance was then found to be the same as the original, despite other departures from standard

1. Wholly out of water. type it can be used and abused. We

It appeared the shorter length. 2. Whelly below the load line. have examples of bulbous bows in

from these tests that a bulbous 3: At the load line and below it. the shape of the whale and dolphin, Method 1 has been used by several formation at the water line carried in many fish, in the swan and ducks, firma, particularly by Alfred Holt with it a defect, due to increased etc. The battleship of forty years and Co. It has a little advantage divergent waves, which with a good ago was given a ram of pronounced in obtaining deck space and fare. end could be reduced to 2 per cent, bulbous formation, particularly on We know that flare will have some and if associated with some re- some French vessels, the fullness be-advantage in short steep seas, but duction of wetted surface, or in- ing worked mainly well below water. I am not aware of any direct com- crease of displacement, this could The fullness was necessary for parlson between the sea perfor-be eliminated altogether. strength to ram, but it was effective mance of this and the ordinary propulsively also. The ram being bow.

carried several feet ahead of the "The difficulty of working the stem at the water line, the bow bulbous bow wholly below the load wave was spread out and therefore line, is that in ballast condition the diminished, and the wave-making worst of the bulb comea to the length artificially Increased. water surface, and with the form Troude's 1904 methodical series of drawn in above it, there would be models had this type of bow.

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Spoon Bow,

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