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Ship Museum: In ecclesiastical art a ship has been pictured in the hands of Saint Jude; Saint Ursula has been depicted with a ship near her, or as landing from a ship; Saint Me-lanius has been portrayed as lying dead on a ship which is sailing against the stream; Saint Castor has been pictured saving a ship from sinking; Saint Werenfrid has been represented with a ship in his hand having a coffin in it; Saint Anselm has been portrayed holding the model of a ship, as has Saint Mary of Succours (Husenbeth). The term ship is used for the ecclesiastical vessel that holds the incense, but it is usually of Boat form. The finest centerpiece for the banquet tables of the Middle Ages was a ship of gold or silver made as a masterpiece of the goldsmith and termed a ncf.
Blekinge and Kalmar Provinces fringe the Baltic coast above Skane, their respective capitals being ship-minded Karlskrona, with a Ship Museum and a remarkable collection of figureheads, and Kalmar City, once the heavily fortified "Lock and Key of the Swedish Kingdom." Lying about 25 miles inland from Kalmar is the universally known village of Orrefors, where Swedish "wizards in glass" produce some of the finest and most cleverly designed and engraved glassware to be found in Europe.
Stability is that quality of a ship by virtue of which it resists overturning. The nearer the center of gravity of the ship can be brought down (in the loading) to the center of buoyancy, the more stable the ship—that is, the greater the force which must be applied to raise the center of buoyancy above the center of gravity and cause an overthrow. In other words the stability of a ship depends upon the relative positions of the center of gravity and the center of buoyancy. The center of gravity is discovered by a calculation of the various weights making up the ship's total displacement. |
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