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Re: USS Duluth - Hull design innovation!
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lugnet.build.military
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Mon, 10 Mar 2003 02:35:44 GMT
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In lugnet.build.military, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.build.military, Richie Dulin writes:
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> > This technique though, gives the possibility of generating curves which
> > aren't linked to plates per number of studs. And modern freighters tend to
> > have less vertical flare than warships. It has huge possibilities....
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> Many container ships and tankers and suchlike are completely vertical, in
> fact when one looks down they look like rectangles with bows and sterns
> tacked on, it's not till well under the water line that you get curving
> inward to the keel.
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> But what I was referring to was the very front part of the bow. Because MOST
> of the ship is a big rectangular box, the bow is a somewhat fast curving
> thing (like a hershey's kiss on its side, cut in half, and tacked onto the
> front of the box). Not sure I see how this works there unless you're at a
> really large scale.
What's wrong with being at a really large scale? ;-)
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> (military is cool, yes, but I like container ships, especially panamax and
> bigger...)
And they provide an opportunity for colours other then grey!
Cheers
Richie Dulin
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| (...) Many container ships and tankers and suchlike are completely vertical, in fact when one looks down they look like rectangles with bows and sterns tacked on, it's not till well under the water line that you get curving inward to the keel. But (...) (22 years ago, 10-Mar-03, to lugnet.build.military)
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