Cover -- Ship Design and Performance for Masters and Mates -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1 Ship Design -- 1 Preliminary estimates for new ships: Main Dimensions -- Estimations of the length for a new design -- Method 1: Cube root format -- Method 2: The geosim procedure -- Method 3: Graphical intersection procedure -- Selection of LBP values for graphs -- Depth Mld (D) for the new design -- Freeboard (f) on Oil Tankers -- Optimisation of the Main Dimensions and C[sub(B)] -- Increase of L -- Increase in B -- Increases in Depth Mld and Draft Mld -- Increase in C[sub(B)] -- 2 Preliminary estimates for group weights for a new ship -- Section 1 -- Estimation of steel weight for a new ship -- Consideration of steel weight estimations -- Methods for estimating steel weight in ships -- Cubic Number method -- Weight per metre run method -- The 'slog-slog' method -- Method of differences -- Modification for C[sub(B)] -- Scantling correction -- Deck sheer correction -- Computational techniques -- Prefabrication techniques - a short note -- Section 2 -- Wood and Outfit weight -- Method 1: The coefficient procedure -- Method 2: Proportional procedure -- Non-ferrous metals -- Use of plastics for Merchant ships -- Section 3 -- Estimations of machinery weight -- Method 1: The rate procedure -- Method 2: Use of empirical formulae -- 3 Preliminary capacities for a new ship -- Detailed estimation of the Grain Capacity -- Cargo oil capacity for Oil Tankers -- Capacity estimate for a Bulk Carrier -- 4 Approximate hydrostatic particulars -- C[sub(B)] values -- C[sub(W)] values -- Displacements -- KB or vertical centre of buoyancy values -- BM[sub(T)] values -- Transverse Metacentre (KM[sub(T)]) -- Waterplane area (WPA) -- Tonnes per centimetre immersion (TPC) -- Moment to change trim one centimetre (MCTC) -- BM[sub(L)] values.

Longitudinal Metacentre values (KM[sub(L)]) -- Hydrostatic curves -- Transverse Metacentric height (GM[sub(T)]) -- Some comparisons -- Comparison between BM[sub(T)] and BM[sub(L)] -- KG or vertical centre of gravity values -- Relationship between draft, W, C[sub(B)] and C[sub(W)] -- Longitudinal centre of buoyancy -- Summary -- 5 Types of ship resistance -- Frictional resistance -- Froude's speed-length law -- Froude number -- Relationship between Froude's speed-length law and Froude's Number -- Residual resistance -- Total resistance -- Wind and appendage allowances -- To find speed of the ship -- To find the wetted service area of the ship -- Naked effective power -- Procedure steps for solving ship resistance and P[sub(NE)] problems -- Three more important geosim relationships -- 6 Types of ship speed -- 7 Types of power in ships -- 8 Power coefficients on ships -- Quasi Propulsive Coefficient -- Propulsive Coefficient -- Admiralty Coefficient -- An approximation for Admiralty Coefficient -- 9 Preliminary design methods for a ship's propeller and rudder -- Propeller design -- Summary remarks -- Rudder design -- Size of the steering gear machinery for turning the rudder -- Nomenclature for ship design and performance -- Part 2 Ship Performance -- 10 Modern Merchant Ships -- Oil Tankers -- Product/Chemical Carriers -- OBOs and Ore Carriers -- Bulk Carriers -- General Cargo ships -- Gas Carriers -- Passenger Liners -- Container ships -- RO-RO vessels and ferries -- Tugs -- Hydrofoils/Hovercraft -- SWATH designs -- 11 Ships of this Millennium -- Standard ships -- 12 Ship Trials: a typical 'Diary of Events' -- Pro-forma details -- Completion of vessel construction programme -- Dry-docking of vessel -- Undock to basin -- Ship Trial programme -- Day 1 -- Day 2 -- Day 3 -- Certificate of Registry and the Carving Note.

13 Ship Trials: speed performance on the measured mile -- Precautions -- Data measured -- Estimation of a Ship's Trial speed -- Method 1 -- Method 2 -- Progressive Speed Trials -- 14 Ship Trials: endurance and fuel consumption -- Engine settings during Ship Trials -- Fuel consumption values -- Method 1 -- Method 2 -- Conclusions -- 15 Ship Trials: manoeuvring trials and stopping characteristics -- Spiral manoeuvre -- Zig-zag manoeuvre -- Turning circle diameter trials -- Crash-stop manoeuvres -- 16 Ship Trials: residual trials -- Anchor/cable/windlass trials (as per Lloyds Rules) -- Anchor lowering and hoisting tests -- Windlass design and testing -- Astern trials -- Rudder helm trials -- Transverse-thruster propulsion unit trials -- 'Hand-roll' test for hydraulic-fin stabilisers -- Bollard pull trials -- Navigation instrumentation checks -- Communications equipment testing -- Tank integrity tests -- Main and auxiliary power checks -- Lifeboat and release chutes release tests -- Accommodation checklists -- 17 Ship squat in open water and in confined channels -- What exactly is ship squat? -- Why has ship squat become so important in the last 40 years? -- Recent ship groundings -- Department of Transport 'M' notices -- What are the factors governing ship squat? -- Squat formulae -- Ship squat for ships with static trim -- Squats at both ends of a vessel in open water -- Procedures for reducing ship squat -- False drafts -- Summary -- 18 Reduced ship speed and decreased propeller revolutions in shallow waters -- Width of influence -- Depth of influence -- Loss of speed and decrease in propeller revolutions for ships in shallow water -- H/T considerations -- Blockage factor considerations -- Conclusions -- 19 The phenomena of Interaction of ships in confined waters -- What exactly is Interaction? -- Ship to ground (squat) Interaction.

Ship to ship Interaction -- Methods for reducing the effects of Interaction in Cases 1-7 -- Ship to shore Interaction -- Summary -- 20 Ship vibration -- Causes of vibration -- Reduction of vibration on ships already built -- Which propeller to fit? -- Ship vibration frequency calculations -- Some vibration approximations -- Conclusions for Worked example 20.2 -- 21 Performance enhancement in ship-handling mechanisms -- Ship-handling mechanisms -- Becker twisted rudder -- Schilling rudders -- Schilling VecTwin rudders -- Activated stabilising tanks -- Tee-duct in Fore Peak Tank -- Brake flaps -- Submerged parachutes -- Stern fins -- Hinged tail flap in rudder -- Kort nozzle -- Kort rudder -- Bulbous bows -- Rotating cylinder rudders -- Hydraulic fin stabilisers -- Twin-hull ships -- Double-skin hulls -- John Crane Lips rudders -- Rudder fins -- Stern tunnel -- Activated rudder -- Pleuger rudder -- Hull form of ship -- Engine type -- Hull surface polymer paints -- Planned maintenance -- Asymmetrical stern -- Retrofits -- 22 Improvements in propeller performance -- Voith-Schneider Propulsion unit -- Transverse thrusters -- Schottel thrusters -- Grim vane wheel -- Groningen Propeller Technology propeller -- Propeller Boss Cap Fins -- Voith cycloidal rudder -- Pods -- Steerpropulsion contra-rotating propellers -- Conclusions -- Useful design and performance formulae -- Preliminary estimates for dimensions -- Estimates for steel weight -- Estimates for wood and outfit weight -- Estimates for machinery weight -- Estimates for capacities -- Approximate hydrostatics -- Ship resistance -- Types of ship speed -- Types of power -- Power coefficients -- Propeller and rudder design -- Bollard pulls -- Speed Trials -- Fuel consumption trials -- Crash-stop manoeuvres -- Ship squat -- Reduced speed and loss of revolutions -- Interaction -- Ship vibration.

Revision one-liners for student's examination preparation -- How to pass examinations in Maritime Studies -- Before your examination -- In your examination -- References -- Answers to questions -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.