An outrigged gig has two alternative disadvantages, compared to the skiff build; if she is as narrow at the waterline as the skiff, her flush gunwale reduces the leverage for oar or scull.
If, on the other hand, she is built to afford full leverage, this entails more beam on the waterline than in a skiff, the rowlocks of which are raised and flared above the gunwale.
E E her wooden walls 5 feet thick, diminishing to below the waterline as at F.
Although every unarmoured part of her above the side plating was either shot away or riddled, the rolling revealed the fact that below the waterline she was practically intact.
Everything below thewaterline was practically intact, except that the concussion had broken every electric lamp in the ship, broken glass littering every square foot of space.
She was rolling sluggishly, owing to the immense weight and height above the waterline of her ten 13.
The waterline of the whole dock was painted a bright red, some four feet high, and above this rose an expanse of raw black iron, punctuated with long rows of shining rivet heads.
We want to raise thatwaterline 'igh enough to work in the waves before we reach th' Channel.
They found the whole crew swinging along the hundred foot front of the dock, broadening the brilliant red waterline with all possible dispatch.
A moment later, and the whole schooner was ablaze, from waterline to masthead.
At the same time a wide rent in her side above the waterline gaped black as she topped a wave.
He was not especially interested in Waterline happenings so long as Plimsoll remained set.
So he had told his men who had come with him to the camp from the Waterline Ranch that the Three Star outfit was a danger to all of them, undoubtedly acting as spies for Brandon, and that they should be eliminated for the general good.
One way led to Beaver Dam Lake, the other rifted deep through rocky outcrop, leading to the Waterline Range.
Plimsoll had learned of the visit of the men who had come with Bill Brandon to investigate Plimsoll's methods of running the Waterline Horse Ranch.
But the talk was all of the brawl at the Waterline with contemptuous mention of Wyatt and the rest.
Five of the nine left of the Waterlineoutfit drove the herd.
Plimsoll's likely taken her over to theWaterline range country.
The central citadel system consists in armoring that part of the waterline which is abreast of the engines and boilers.
In more modern ships the guns are mounted in an armored citadel, in armored barbettes or turrets, the engines, boilers and waterline being the only other parts protected.
Forward and aft the waterline is unprotected, but a protective deck extends from the citadel in each direction, preventing the projectiles from entering the compartments below.
The belt system consists in protecting the whole waterline by an armored belt, the armor being thickest abreast of the engines and boilers.
Full thirty foot she towered from waterline to rail.
The Kennebunk was heavily armored on the waterline and barbettes.
She had two steel cage masts and cofferdams along the unarmored portion of her waterline to protect the ship from being flooded if pierced by a shell between wind and water.
This door kicked open outboard, giving vent upon the sea, the opening being about ten feet above the waterline of the Kennebunk.
The warm land-breeze had freshened and ripples splashed against the vessel's side, while every now and then a languid gurgle rose from about her waterline and the foam her plates threw off was filled with phosphorescent flame.
She scarcely moved to the lift of the languid swell, but as the undulations passed there was a pale-green shimmer about her waterline that magnified the height to her topmost deck.
Massive catheads projected far enough to rip away the upper works of an enemy, while the bronze beak at the waterline drove into her hull.
Ordnance improved in penetrating power, until the old wrought-iron armor had to be 20 inches thick and confined to waterline and batteries.
They proved to be the Kasagi escorted by the Chitose, making for the Japanese coast, the former being holed below the waterline and making so much water that it was doubtful whether it would be possible to save her.
There was no boilers or furnaces, only combustion chambers, and this fact made the carrying of the great weight of armour under the waterline possible.
Due to the narrow bottom of these canoes, they became long and narrow on the waterline when not heavily loaded and so could be paddled very rapidly.
Old models indicate that the early Malecite canoes may have used decoration all over above the waterline (see p.
Full, convex level lines will appear below the waterline in canoes having a strongly rockered bottom.
Sometimes they used scraped winter bark decoration just along the gunwales; occasionally the whole canoe was decorated in this manner above the normal load waterline as described on page 87.
The ice-skin was then 12 1/2 inches above the waterline amidships.
Two 12-inch shells fired simultaneously from a pair of guns struck the "Maria Teresa" just above the waterline on the port side, aft and below her stern turret.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "waterline" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: companion; linear; parts; ship; watermark
