A junk is a type of Chinese sailing ship with fully battened sails.There are two types of junk in China: the northern junk, which developed from Chinese river boats,: 20 and southern junk, which developed from Austronesian ship designs used in trade with the Eastern Han dynasty since the 2nd century AD.: 12–13 They continued to evolve in later dynasties, and were predominantly …

The convex hull of a finite point set forms a convex polygon when =, or more generally a convex polytope in .Each extreme point of the hull is called a vertex, and (by the Krein–Milman theorem) every convex polytope is the convex hull of its vertices.It is the unique convex polytope whose vertices belong to and that encloses all of . For sets of points in general position, the convex …

The draft or draught of a ship's hull is the vertical distance between the waterline and the bottom of the hull . The draught of the vessel is the maximum depth of any part of the vessel, including appendages such as rudders, propellers and drop keels if deployed. Draft determines the minimum depth of water a ship or boat can safely navigate.

SS Great Britain is a museum ship and former passenger steamship that was advanced for her time. She was the largest passenger ship in the world from 1845 to 1854. She was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806–1859), for the Great Western Steamship Company's transatlantic service between Bristol and New York City. While other ships had been built of …

The hull form and sail plan for the clipper ships, for example, evolved from experience, not from theory. It was not until the advent of steam power and the construction of large iron ships in the mid-19th century that it became clear to ship owners and builders that a more rigorous approach was needed. ... Ship resistance is defined as the ...

A submarine hull has two major components, the light hull and the pressure hull.The light hull (casing in British usage) of a submarine is the outer non-watertight hull which provides a hydrodynamically efficient shape.The pressure hull is the inner hull of a submarine that maintains structural integrity with the difference between outside and inside pressure at depth.

Ship camouflage is a form of military deception in which a ship is painted in one or more colors in order to obscure or confuse an enemy's visual observation. Several types of marine camouflage have been used or prototyped: blending or crypsis, in which a paint scheme attempts to hide a ship from view; deception, in which a ship is made to look smaller or, as with the Q-ships, to …

Design. Pride of Hull was designed as two ships in one, both a car ferry and a cargo transporter, with three large freight decks, loaded by a single stern door and a car deck, on deck 7, loaded via a side ramp. She is 215.05 m (705 ft 7 in) long with a beam of 31.85 m (104 ft 6 in) and a draught of 6.04 m (19 ft 10 in). She is powered by four Wärtsilä 9L46C diesel engines which have a total ...

Hull classification symbol (hull code or hull number), a system to identify ships; Hull House, a settlement house in Chicago, Illinois, United States; USS Hull, any of four U.S. Navy ships; Hull note, the final U.S. proposal delivered to the Empire of Japan before the attack on Pearl Harbor; See also. All pages with titles beginning with Hull

An SSN is a nuclear-powered general-purpose attack submarine. SSN is the US Navy hull classification symbol for such vessels; the SS denotes a submarine and the N denotes nuclear power.The designation SSN is used for interoperability throughout NATO under STANAG 1166, though navies use other terms.