Sentence examples for for freeboard from inspiring English sources

For instance, safety factors or allowance for freeboard were always used in hydraulic engineering design as a means to account for the inherent variability and uncertainty of hydrology.

The design called for a freeboard of 8.89 m forward, 6.24 m amidships and 6.49 m aft.

This standard requires that the pressure due to sea water be calculated as a function of freeboard and speed, especially for hatch covers located on the forward portion of the ship.

When the freeboard for vessel is being assigned, the procedure is to compare a basic department for transport (DfT) standard ship with the new design about to enter service.

For example, clusters of bergs with about 30 metres (100 feet) of freeboard were sighted in the South Atlantic at 35°50′ S, 18°05′ E in 1828.

With just an inch of freeboard, it could have been a floating leaf.

The art lay in the selection of campsites, and in trying, to the extent possible, given his six or seven inches of freeboard, to keep dry.

The cocaine packed inside provides a built-in ballast, giving the boats, which are painted the color of the ocean, about a foot of freeboard above the surface.

Having decided the type of ship, the computation of freeboard is comparatively simple, a number of corrections being applied to the rule basic freeboard given for Type "A" and Type "B" ships against length of ship.

The 172-foot (52-metre) long vessel had little freeboard except for the thickly armoured rotating turret within which were mounted two 11-inch (28-cm) smoothbores.

Both b and Pow increase for decreasing relative crest freeboard: b reaches values up to 1.5, while Pow approaches the value of 1.0 (all waves overtop the crest of the structure).