"SHIP CONSTRUCTION".

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Merchant Ship Stability (First Published 1945 - 6th Edition 1983)
By H.J. Pursey, Extra Master.

Companion volume to Merchant Ship Construction. Once a vessel has been built and thereafter, her stability comes under the care of her Masters and Officers. It is important that seamen should have a thorough knowledge of the underlying principles.

Designed to the theory up to, and including, the standard required for a Master's certificate. This has been carefully linked up with the practice, and many diagrams clearly illustrate the problems.

CONTENTS: Some General Information, Areas and Volumes, Forces and Moments, Centre of Gravity of Ships, Centres of Buoyancy and Flotation, The Righting Lever and Metacentre, Transverse Statical Stability-Free Surface Effect, Transverse Statical Stability in Practice, Dynamical Stability, Longitudinal Stability, Formulae and Proofs, Bilging, Rolling, Miscellaneous, Matters Stability Curves and Scales. Illustrated..

Price: £24.00

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