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SINCE the loss of the Captain an opinion has rapidly gained ground, not only amongst unscientific men, but even amongst those who from their education should have acquired some of the most simple laws of statics, that that noble ship toppled over on account of her being “top-heavy”—that the Captain, an armour-plated ship with a low freeboard, was more “top-heavy” than a broadside ship, with more than twice as much out of water! The fact is, that her weights were lower and not higher than those of other vessels, and therefore that her fault was not “top-heaviness.”
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LIGHTFOOT, T. The Stability of Turret Ships. Nature 2, 494 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/002494a0
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