Rudder/Fin Roll Stabilization of the USCG WMEC 901 Class Vessel

Marine Technology and SNAME News

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 157-170

  Sgobbo, Jerrold N ^a   Parsons, Michael G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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