The Nautical Encyclopedia

Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

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Tumble Home

Sea Terms

(See Falling Home.)

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2026 Editor's Note: Tumblehome — sides leaning inward above the waterline — vanished from warships for a century, then returned on stealth destroyers like USS Zumwalt: radar loves what stability once distrusted. See tumblehome. (Ed: BR 2026-07-10)

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