Merchant ship stability
By: by H.J. Pursey
Contributors: Wardle, James
Edition: Rev. 7th (metric) ed. / revised by James Wardle.
Publisher: Brown, Son & Ferguson
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Glasgow
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9781849270236
Subjects: Merchant ships; Stability of ships
Notes: Includes index.

"A companion to 'Merchant ship construction'"
Table of contents: title: Some general information; title: Areas and volumes; title: Forces and moments; title: Density, deadweight and draft; title: Centre of gravity of ships; title: Centres of buoyancy and flotation; title: The righting lever and metacentre; title: Transverse statical stability; title: Free surface effect; title: Transverse statical stability in practice; title: Dynamical stability; title: Longitudinal stability; title: Stability of curves and scales; title: Bilging of compartments; title: Stability and the load line rules; title: Miscellaneous matters; title: Rolling; title: Summary; title: Deadweight scale, hydrostatic particulars and hydrostatic curves.