Ram Bow
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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.
Ram Bow
a projection of the underwater section of a ship’s prow, used to cut down an enemy ship. Ram bows were used in rowing fleets and in the armor-clad fleets of the second half of the 19th century.
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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ram bow. The crossdeck structure begins some 40 per cent of the craft's length aft of the bow and the wet deck clearance conforms with results obtained from model tests with the full-scale RV Triton trials.
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