William Hovgaard Structural Design of Warships

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. This work is based on a series of lectures prepared for a course in Naval Construction which was established by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1901 for officers of the United States Navy detailed to take this course in preparation for the duties as Naval Constructors. The lectures have been developed during the last thirteen years and, having now taken a fairly permanent form, it was' thought desirable to print them, partly for reasons of instruction, and partly in the hope that they might be useful to naval constructors and designers of warships in general. The course in Naval Construction extends over three years and consists of lectures and design work. The general plan of the lectures will be here briefly outlined in order to show the place which the present work occupies in the course.