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(Two extreme cases of Breaking from Line into column, viz: single
column and column of divisions with widest front.)

The fleet of nine ships is steaming in line abreast at 200
yard intervals. Front 1600 yards. Five ships will form the van
squadron, which will be in this case the Right in Front.

The four left ships must each be transferred four intervals,
(800 yards) to the right, making two successive wheels, first right,
then left. Using the same figures as before, each of these wheels
will take 1 1/2 minutes (together 3 minutes) from time of putting helm
down.

[graph table]
[Figure] Scale 4 fold
[Figure] 800yds = 3200
[Figure] 1000f t= 333 = ^yds
[Figure] = 1332
[Figure] 700 = 233 = 932
[Figure] 234yd s =936

[Figure] The two wheels independent of any other movement will
[Figure] move each ship 1700 feet to tight, and 1700 feet to the front.
[Figure] (see Fig); that is 566 yards in each direction. There will
[Figure] remain (800 - 566) 234yds to be gained to the right to bring
[Figure] each ship astern of her proper leader, this is the space B' B"
[Figure] in the figure (Fig). Allowing for speed to have been reduced
in the wheeling to 9 knots, we will give 1 minute for traversing
this space. The total time for perfoming the evolution will be
then 4 minutes.