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width of beam and on the fact of her centre 

 of gravity being low down. The term stiff 

 is applied to a ship which has a good deal 

 of stability, and is the opposite of tender. 

 A ship which rolls comparatively little is 

 said to be steady or easy (slow roller) in a 

 sea way. 



Walton tells us that the stiff ship is 

 generally the one which rolls most, and that 

 a steady steamer is usually tender. The 

 man-o'-war, 'The Captain, whose great want 

 of stability was the cause of her loss by 

 upsetting, was remarkably free from rolling 

 under ordinary circumstances. Also, it has 

 been noticed in the case of a lightship that 

 she rolled much less at night, when her 

 lantern, which weighed several hundred- 

 weights was hoisted up on her mast, than by 



