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Whaleback
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[1] a cargo vessel with the curve of its tumblehome side continued across the deck. now seldom seen, but popular in the great lakes during the early 1900s. [2] a small rounded structure on stem or stern to protect against breaking seas.
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Tumblehome, английский
- Hull shape, when viewed in a transverse section, where the widest part of the hull is someway below deck level.
- Having sides that slope inward and upward from the lowest gundeck to the weather deck of a wooden man-o’-war, thus concentrating the weight of ordnance toward the centerline, improving stability and seaworthiness, making it possible to fire the upper guns while grappled alongside, and making the vessel difficult to board.
- Of a vehicle body, inward sloping towards the top in section, from maritime terminology. 161 tune (1) to adjust the operating variables of an engine (ignition timing, fuel mixture metering, etc) to give optimum performance. (2) the running condition of an engine with regard to suc
- The name given to the inward curve of the body profile which often occurs at the lower bodyside level. in this design the bodyside is flat until it begins to curve in towards the floor or solebar level.
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Whales, английский
Seaman’s satirical slang for canned sardines.
Whale processing, английский
After a kill the blubber is flensed into large strips known as blanket pieces, the head is cut off, and major body parts dissected. any ambergris found is stored for refining ashore. the lower jaws are boiled until the teeth can be extracted for making scrimshaw. bones, meat, and blubber are cut to fit cookers known as digesters where they are rendered into a gigantic “stew” in which oil floats to the surface and is “tapped” (drawn off ) into storage tanks. the remainder is a mixture of bits of meat and “gluewater” containing bone pulverized to the size of pepper grains. after processing by centrifuge and hammer mill, the meat (65 percent protein) is bagged for animal fodder. the remaining gluewater is dried into “whale solubles” (85–90 percent protein) also used in feed mixes, but in limited quantity since such a high protein content can be toxic. every part of the animal is used with no waste products whatsoever, and a typical 13-meter (43 foot) sperm whale yields roughly: oil 7,100 kg (7 tons) solubles 2,900 kg (2.9 tons) meat 1,700 kg (1.7 tons) teeth 54 kg (120 lbs) ambergris is sometimes found.
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