Stability, trim and strength for merchant ships and fishing vessils
Subtitle: a guide to the theory, rules and calculations carried out to ensure that a vessel maintains seaworthy stability and trim whilst remaining within its limits of strength
By: by Ian C. Clark
Contributors: Nautical Institute (Great Britain)
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: The Nautical Institute
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9781870077873
Subjects: Trim of ships (Equilibrium); Statistical stability of ships; Marine engineering; Naval architecture; Ships; Safety regulations; Handbooks, manuals
Other titles: Stability, trim & strength for merchant ships & fishing vessils; Trim and strength for merchant ships and fishing vessils
Notes: First edition published in 2002.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-422) and index.
Table of contents: title: An introduction to the shape of a ship's hullform and the principles of hydrostatics that act upon it; title: Locating the center of buoyance at different angel of heel; title: Transverse stability characteristics and the still water GZ curve; title: Operational transverse stability; title: Stability requirements for ships operating under special circumstances; title: Longitudinal stability, trim, drydocking and stranding; title: A ship's motion at sea; title: Shear forces, bending moments and longitudinal strength; title: The consequences of flooding through bilging; title: The 'SOLAS' subdivision and damage stability requirements for passenger ships and cargo vessels and the 'MARPOL' tanker subdivision regulations; title: Load lines for merchant ships and fishing vessels; title: Appendix I: Basic calculus, differentiation, integration, methods of approximate integration; title: Appendix II: Form correction to the mean draft and draft surveys; title: Appendix III: Alternative formula for the stability loss during docking; title: Appendix IV: Simple harmonic motion and a ship's motion in a seaway; title: Appendix V: Alternative IMO minimum stability criteria for container ships; title: Appendix VI: Muckle's method for fixing a wave profile waterline; title: Appendix VII: Correcting wave induced bending moments for wave presure; title: Appendix VIII: Expansion joints; title: Appendix IX: Upgrading ro-ro passenger ship survivability: water on the ro-ro deck and the Stockholm Agreement: model tests and capsizing due to water on the ro-ro deck; title: Appendix X: The 1988 Protocol on the International Load Line Regulations, The 2003 amendments to the 1988 protocol, 2003 regulations 14-1, 1`5, & 16: Hatchway requirements, Other 2003 amendments to the Conditions of Agreements, The 2003 amendments to Assigned Freeboard regulations 27-38, The 2003 Regulation 39, paragraphs 1 to 4; title: Minimum Bow Height, The 2003 Regulation 39, paragraph 5; title: Forward reserve buoyancy, Other changes in the 2003 Amendments to the 1988 Protocol; title: Appendix XI: Shipboard stability computers, The sequential nature of a computer's calculations, The accuracy of a stability computer, Damage stability programs, In conclusion; title: Epilogue: A personal summary.