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freeboard sentence examples

  • Dives are usually made from the deck as she has a low freeboard returning using a removable dive ladder.
  • Small vessels, with thin masts, light rigging & sailcloth, & a lower freeboard need less wind & smaller waves.
  • Freeboard space above the granular bed.
  • The cryosat program seeks to replace sporadic submarine missions by continual monitoring of the ice freeboard, from which thickness will be derived.
  • Loads of built in buoyancy and a high freeboard make this craft ideal for offshore work.
  • In the case of earth banked slurry stores, the minimum freeboard has to be 750mm.
  • Other scholars have suggested that they are sun disks, as there was not enough freeboard for shields if the boat was paddled.
  • These craft have more freeboard than racing hovercraft and are less likely to swamp.

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