Naval Photo Interpretation
Fig. 4.
A close study of this low oblique proves that there
are not less than four different wake patterns, probably
as a result of four different hull designs. ;
on the other hand, is quite different, formed as a narrow,
single stream about one third as wide only as the central
stream of the right-hand couple.
Of the two vessels down to the left in the picture,
with arrow-head patterned bow waves, the stern wake of
the left one is more or less without any side-streams, and
because of that there is a conspicuous dark area between
the bow wave and the wake. The vessel to the right, on the