It appears that Wigley was the first to show that it was practically possible to calculate the wave profile for certain fairly ship shaped bodies of small beam and of infinite drafts, moving at a constant speed of advance, and to obtain a fair agreement with the corresponding measured wave profile [l}*. Immediately afterwards Havelock gave a general linearized solution which is applicable to any ship shaped body of infinite draft, moving at a constant speed of advance and satisfying the linearized conditions [2]. Since then some additional papers have appeared in the literature, but their number has always been considerably less than those dealing with the corresponding linearized theory of wave resistance [3] [4].nIn this report we shall return to the general linearized theory of wave profile and wave resistance.
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