Some new methods show promise of leading to speed logs which will be extremely accurate; while these may benefit warship, advantage in ordinary navigation is limited by other unavoidable errors; so far as merchant ships are concerned, future of new logs will depend on cost and ease of maintenance rather than accuracy.


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    Title :

    Ships' speed measurement


    Additional title:

    Engineer


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Engineer ; 202 , n 5243


    Publication date :

    1956


    Size :

    5 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


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