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GENERAL CXDNSIDERATION OF NAVY YARD DESIGN. 85 ] 



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 both tried out during the loaded trials as well as when light, and found to be perfectly satis- ^ 



factory. I 



"Reference should be made here to a paper by Naval Constructor D. W. Taylor, read '■ 



before this Society in 1911, on the influence of form of ships upon their resistance; this paper j 



indicated generally the results to be expected in this case, but as the experiments were upon ' 



models somewhat finer than the Tyler no definite prediction as to power necessary could be i 



obtained therefrom. \ 



"The time which elapsed between bottom painting and trials should be stated in this | 



paper. The bottom was coated with Mclnnes anti-fouling composition, and the ship j 



launched on the 31st of May, 1913. Between that time and the trials, run on the third of I 



August, she was not dry-docked. She lay in fresh water at Camden, N. J., from the launch j 



until July 26, during which time no appreciable fouling would take place." j 



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