• This classic book offers a general introduction to all aspects of ship stability and ship strength, squat, interaction, and trim, materials stresses and forces
• The market leading ship stability text, widely used at sea and on shore
• New content inclues coverage of now-mandatory double-skin tankers and fast ferries
• Meets STCW (Standards of Training, Certification & Watchkeeping) requirements and includes self-examination material: essential reading for professionals and students alike

Nautical college students from cadet to master level for professional marine qualifications under the International Maritime Organisation STCW requirements (Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping), Marine engineers and naval architects, Serving seafarers and merchant navy officers

Part 1 Linking Ship Stability and Ship Motions

• Forces and moments
• Centroids and the centre of gravity
• Density and specific gravity
• Laws of flotation
• Group weights, water draft, air draft and density
• Transverse statical stability
• Effect of free surface of liquids on stability
• TPC and displacement curves
• Form coefficients
• Simpson's Rules for areas and centroids
• Second moments of area – moments of inertia
• Calculating KB, BM and metacentric diagrams
• Final KG plus twenty reasons for a rise in G 14 Angle of list
• Moments of statical stability
• Trim or longitudinal stability
• Stability and hydrostatic curves
• Increase in draft due to list
• Water pressure
• Combined list and trim
• Calculating the effect of free surface of liquids (FSE)
• Bilging and permeability
• Dynamical stability
• Effect of beam and freeboard on stability
• Effects of side winds on stability
• Icing allowances plus effects on trim and stability
• Laws of flotationType A, Type B and Type (B-60) vessels plus FL and PL curves (as governed by DfT regulations)
• Load lines and freeboard marks
• Timber ship freeboard marks
• IMO Grain Rules for the safe carriage of grain in bulk
• Angle of loll
• True mean draft
• The inclining experiment plus fluctuations in a ship's lightweight
• The calibration book plus soundings and ullages
• Drydocking and grounding
• Liquid pressure and thrust plus centres of pressure
• Ship squat in open water and in confined channels
• Interaction, including two case studies
• Heel due to turning
• Rolling, pitching and heaving motions
• Synchronous rolling and parametric rolling of ships
• List due to bilging side compartments
• Effect of change of density on draft and trim
• List with zero metacentric height
• The deadweight scale
• The Trim and Stability book
• Simplified stability information
• The stability pro-forma
• Nomenclature of ship terms
• Photographs of merchant ships
• Ships of this millennium

Part 2 Linking Ship Stability and Ship Strength

• Bending of beams
• Bending of ships
• Strength curves for ships
• Bending and shear stresses

Part 3 Endnotes

• Draft Surveys
• Quality control plus the work of ship surveyors
• Extracts from the 1998 Merchant Shipping (Load Line) Regulations Reference Number MSN 1752 (M)
• Keeping up to date

Part 4 Appendices

• Summary of stability formulae
• SQA/MCA 2004 syllabuses for masters and mates
• Specimen exam questions with marking scheme
• Revision one-liners
• How to pass exams in maritime studies
• References
• Answers to exercises
• Index

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