Front cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Note -- Introduction -- Changes to the Sixth edition -- Part 1 Linking Ship Stability and Ship Motions -- 1 Forces and moments -- Forces -- Moments of forces -- Mass -- Moments of mass -- 2 Centroids and the centre of gravity -- Effect of removing or discharging mass -- Application to ships -- Effect of adding or loading mass -- Application to ships -- Effect of shifting weights -- Effect of suspended weights -- Conclusions -- 3 Density and specific gravity -- 4 Laws of flotation -- The variable immersion hydrometer -- Tonnes per centimetre immersion (TPC) -- TPC in dock water -- Reserve buoyancy -- Homogeneous logs of rectangular section -- Conclusion -- 5 Group weights, water draft, air draft and density -- Group weights in a ship -- Effect of change of density when the displacement is constant -- The effect on box-shaped vessels -- The effect on ship-shaped vessels -- Effect of density on displacement when the draft is constant -- 6 Transverse statical stability -- Recapitulation -- Definitions -- The metacentre -- Equilibrium -- Stable equilibrium -- Unstable equilibrium -- Neutral equilibrium -- Correcting unstable and neutral equilibrium -- Stiff and tender ships -- Negative GM and angle of loll -- The GM value -- 7 Effect of free surface of liquids on stability -- Correcting an angle of loll -- 8 TPC and displacement curves -- Recapitulation -- TPC curves -- Displacement curves -- 9 Form coefficients -- The coefficient of fineness of the water-plane area (Cw) -- The block coefficient of fineness of displacement (Cb) -- Ship's lifeboats -- The midships coefficient (Cm) -- The prismatic coefficient (Cp) -- Note -- 10 Simpson's Rules for areas and centroids -- Areas and volumes -- Simpson's First Rule -- Summary -- Simpson's Second Rule.

Summary -- Simpson's Third Rule -- Summary -- Areas of water-planes and similar figures using extensions of Simpson's Rules -- Using Simpson's First Rule -- Using the extension of Simpson's Second Rule -- The Five/Eight Rule (Simpson's Third Rule) -- Volumes of ship shapes and similar figures -- Appendages and intermediate ordinates -- Appendages -- Subdivided common intervals -- Areas and volumes having an awkward number of ordinates -- Centroids and centres of gravity -- To find the centre of flotation -- To find the KB -- Summary -- 11 Second moments of area - moments of inertia -- The theorem of parallel axes -- Summary -- 12 Calculating KB, BM and metacentric diagrams -- To find KB -- To find transverse BM -- Metacentric diagrams -- 13 Final KG plus twenty reasons for a rise in G -- Twenty reasons for a rise in G -- 14 Angle of list -- Summary -- 15 Moments of statical stability -- The moment of statical stability at a small angle of heel -- The moment of statical stability at a large angle of heel -- 16 Trim or longitudinal stability -- The moment to change trim one centimetre (denoted by MCT 1 cm or MCTC) -- To find the change of draft forward and aft due to change of trim -- The effect of shifting weights already on board -- The effect of loading and/or discharging weights -- Using trim to find the position of the centre of flotation -- Loading a weight to keep the after draft constant -- Loading a weight to produce a required draft -- Using change of trim to find the longitudinal metacentric height (GML) -- Which way will the ship trim? -- Observations -- Summary -- 17 Stability and hydrostatic curves -- Cross curves of stability -- GZ cross curves of stability -- KN cross curves of stability -- Statical stability curves -- Hydrostatic curves -- Using the hydrostatic curves -- 18 Increase in draft due to list -- Box-shaped vessels.

Vessels having a rise of floor -- 19 Water pressure -- Pressure at any depth -- 20 Combined list and trim -- 21 Calculating the effect of free surface of liquids (FSE) -- 22 Bilging and permeability -- Bilging amidships compartments -- Permeability, μ -- Bilging end compartments -- Effect of bilging on stability -- Summary -- 23 Dynamical stability -- 24 Effect of beam and freeboard on stability -- The effect of increasing the beam -- The effect of increasing the freeboard -- Summary -- 25 Effects of side winds on stability -- 26 Icing allowances plus effects on trim and stability -- 27 Type A, Type B and Type (B-60) vessels plus FL and PL curves (as governed by DfT regulations) -- Definitions -- Summary of procedure steps -- 28 Load lines and freeboard marks -- The link -- Historical note -- Definitions -- Freeboards of oil tankers and general cargo ships -- Tabulated freeboard values -- The procedure -- The corrections in detail -- Depth correction -- Cb correction -- Bow height correction -- Superstructure correction -- Sheer correction -- Strength correction -- Summary statement -- The Freeboard Marks -- 29 Timber ship freeboard marks -- 30 IMO Grain Rules for the safe carriage of grain in bulk -- 31 Angle of loll -- To calculate the angle of loll -- Angle of list -- Angle of loll -- 32 True mean draft -- Rule -- Effect of hog and sag on draft amidships -- 33 The inclining experiment plus fluctuations in a ship's lightweight -- Summary -- Fluctuations in a ship's lightweight over a period of time -- 34 The calibration book plus soundings and ullages -- Methods for reading soundings and ullages -- Adjustments for angle of heel and trim -- Adjustments for temperature -- 35 Drydocking and grounding -- The virtual loss of GM after taking the blocks overall -- Note to students -- 36 Liquid pressure and thrust plus centres of pressure.

Pressure in liquids -- Total thrust and resultant thrust -- To find the resultant thrust -- The centre of pressure -- Centres of pressure by Simpson's Rules -- Using horizontal ordinates -- Using vertical ordinates -- Summary -- 37 Ship squat in open water and in confined channels -- What exactly is ship squat? -- Recent ship groundings -- What are the factors governing ship squat? -- Ship squat for ships with static trim -- Worked example - ship squat for a supertanker -- Ship squat in wide and narrow rivers -- Procedure for using Figure 37.6 -- Calculation of maximum squat -- 38 Interaction, including two case studies -- What exactly is interaction? -- Ship to ground (squat) interaction -- Ship to ship interaction -- Methods for reducing the effects of interaction in Cases 1 to 5 -- Ship to shore interaction -- Summary -- 39 Heel due to turning -- 40 Rolling, pitching and heaving motions -- Pitching motions -- Heaving motions -- 41 Synchronous rolling and parametric rolling of ships -- Synchronous rolling of ships -- Parametric rolling of ships -- 42 List due to bilging side compartments -- Summary -- 43 Effect of change of density on draft and trim -- 44 List with zero metacentric height -- 45 The deadweight scale -- 46 The Trim and Stability book -- Summary -- 47 Simplified stability information -- Maximum Permissible Deadweight Moment Diagram -- Departure condition -- Arrival Condition -- 48 The stability pro-forma -- Nomenclature of ship terms -- Photographs of merchant ships -- Ships of this millennium -- Part 2 Linking Ship Stability and Ship Strength -- 49 Bending of beams -- Beam theory -- Stresses -- Tensile and compressive stresses -- Shearing stresses -- Complementary stress -- Bending moments in beams -- Shear force and bending moment diagrams -- Case I -- Case II -- Freely supported beams -- Case I -- Case II -- 50 Bending of ships.

Longitudinal stresses in still water -- Longitudinal stresses in waves -- Weight, buoyancy and load diagrams -- The weight diagram -- Bonjean curves -- 51 Strength curves for ships -- Buoyancy curves -- Load curves -- Shear forces and bending moments of ships -- Murray's method -- The Still Water Bending Moment (SWBM) -- The Wave Bending Moment (WBM) -- 52 Bending and shear stresses -- Bending stresses -- Shearing stresses -- Bending stresses in the hull girder -- Summary -- Part 3 Endnotes -- 53 Draft Surveys -- Summary -- 54 Quality control plus the work of ship surveyors -- 55 Extracts from the 1998 Merchant Shipping (Load Line) Regulations Reference Number MSN 1752 (M) -- 56 Keeping up to date -- Part 4 Appendices -- I Summary of stability formulae -- Form coefficients -- Drafts -- Trim -- Simpson's rules -- KB and BM -- Transverse stability -- Longitudinal stability -- Transverse statical stability -- Effect of free surface -- Drydocking and grounding -- Pressure of liquids -- Bilging and permeability -- Strength of ships -- Freeboard marks -- Ship squat -- Miscellaneous -- Permeability μ -- Drafts and trim considerations -- Note -- Summary -- II SQA/MCA 2004 syllabuses for masters and mates -- (a) Chief mate unlimited stability and structure syllabus -- (b) 00W unlimited stability and operations syllabus -- III Specimen exam questions with marking scheme -- Recent Examination questions for Ship Stability @ 032-72 level: (a) STCW 95 Chief Mate/Master Reg.11/2 (unlimited) -- General Ship Knowledge @ 035-22 level: (b) STCW 95 Officer in Charge of Navigational Watch <500 gt Reg.11/3 (Near Coastal) -- IV 100 Revision one-liners -- V How to pass exams in maritime studies -- Before your examination -- In your examination -- After the examination -- References -- Answers to exercises -- Index.