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Buoyancy
The article states that inverted bows lack reserve buoyancy and tend to plunge under waves rather than pierce or ride them. This may well be the case for late20th and early 21st century inverted bows. But this article also includes the curved 'ram' bows of dreadnought-type and earlier ships of the early 20th century and beforehand in the same overall category and presumably applies the same performance critique to those bows. Yet, anyone who has read Reed's writings about the form, as developed in the 1860s and remaining very little modified until the First World War, will be aware that the form was selected specifically for its combination of shapes which aided buoyancy forward. Late 19th-C to early 20th-C 'ram' bows (as opposed to the more modern 'inverted' bow) aided seakeeping and were far more buoyant than contemporary clipper bows. They also operated in a different speed regime to the later bows of ships coming from the mid-20th Century up to the present day, by and large. Perhaps the article might reflect this in a way which would make this distinction clear to the average reader, since this piece suggests that they were merely detrimental with no clear benefits. Cursory research in other sources outside of this encyclopedia (Reed has even been cited in other articles in Wikipedia before) reveals another story. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.29.127.120 (talk) 19:17, 27 May 2022 (UTC)