'...1.333 times the square root of its water line length ...' etc.
Which is, I understand, one of the reasons for the 'bulb'
extending beneath the prow of so many modern ships.
(Something about drag reduced by an exact number of
waves - ? 3 ? - at the waterline.)
Yet I don't THINK destroyers or their like carry such
probosces. Wrong?
Scottie B.
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