In sailing and boating, a vessel's freeboard is the distance from the waterline to the upper deck level, measured at the lowest point of sheer where water...
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A freeboard is a specialist skateboard designed to closely simulate the behavior of a snowboard. Freeboards were developed to allow snowboarders to transition...
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Look up freeboard in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Freeboard may refer to: Freeboard (nautical), the height of a ship's deck above the water level...
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Load line (watercraft) (redirect from Freeboard mark)
ship has sufficient freeboard (the height from the waterline to the main deck) and thus sufficient reserve buoyancy. The freeboard of commercial vessels...
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of superstructure on board a ship or a boat also affects the amount of freeboard that such a vessel requires along its sides, down to her waterline. In...
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Sea ice thickness (redirect from Sea ice freeboard)
there isn't too much snow (which is less dense than ice) on top. Sea ice freeboard is the difference between the height of the surface of sea ice and the...
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to a higher freeboard after several classes of low-freeboard vessel had been constructed, the last being the Trafalgar class. Low freeboard had been popular...
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created by splitting a dugout and inserting a plank bottom, while the freeboard was increased for sea voyages by adding planks on the sides. By the 18th...
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inland waterways rarely meet big waves and may have remarkably little freeboard at the bow, whereas fast military vessels operating offshore must be able...
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dictated that they be low-freeboard ships to reduce their topweight. White, however, argued strenuously for a high-freeboard design to improve the new...
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as in the carrack Santa María of Christopher Columbus. This increased freeboard allowed another innovation: the freeing port, and the artillery associated...
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reported as closely comparable to the higher freeboard turret-ship HMS Monarch, but her reduced freeboard added a sense of "sluggishness". The Captain...
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water of 1025 kg/m3) at the draft corresponding to the assigned summer freeboard and the light displacement (lightweight) of the ship. Transport portal...
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mandatory survival suits, depth finders, positioning systems, increased freeboard, and more frequent inspection of vessels. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance...
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into the cabin. It is needed because surfaced submarines have limited freeboard, that is, they lie low in the water. Bathtubs help prevent swamping the...
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the ships engaged in international voyages. The determinations of the freeboard of ships are calculated and/or verified by classification societies which...
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ships meant that more freeboard would be needed both fore and amidships, the latter requiring an additional foot of armored freeboard. Along with this came...
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distinctive resulting feature of this was the washstrake added to increase the freeboard. It was pierced with rowlock cut-outs for the oars, so that the thwarts...
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characteristics. Internally, the ships were very cramped and crowded. Freeboard was unusually low for such large carriers; in heavy seas, they shipped...
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planking-first construction, they may only be fastened to the hull planking. freeboard The height of a ship's hull (excluding the superstructure) above the waterline;...
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was the first ocean-worthy breastwork monitor; because of her very low freeboard, her decks were subject to being swept by water and spray, interfering...
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stable, and difficult to damage by gunfire, because of their very low freeboard. This, however, caused them to behave, some said, as a "half-tide rock"[citation...
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coastal defence ships differed from earlier monitors by having a higher freeboard and usually possessing both higher speed and a secondary armament; some...
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modelled on Monitor were low-freeboard, mastless, steam-powered vessels with one or two rotating, armoured turrets. The low freeboard meant that these ships...
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protected waters outriggers are added to increase rowlock separation. If the freeboard (height of the gunwale above the waterline) is too high then windage will...
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improvements were significantly better seaworthiness owing to her greater freeboard and a more efficient arrangement of the armament. Iowa was designed to...
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is the vertical distance from the bottom of the keel to the waterline. Freeboard (FB) is depth plus the height of the keel structure minus draft. Length...
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very low freeboard. The weight thus saved from having a high broadside above the waterline was diverted to actual guns and armor. Low freeboard, however...
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low-freeboard, steam-powered ironclad vessels, with one or two rotating armored turrets, rather than the traditional broadside of guns. The low freeboard...
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some small improvements were made to the design, including additional freeboard added to the bow. Roma was commissioned into the Regia Marina on 14 June...
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