Ship Stability for Masters and Mates

Ship Stability for Masters and Mates is the sixth edition of this text and provides a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of ship stability and ship strength, squat, interaction and trim, material stresses and forces.

The book also has a generous provision of worked examples and exercise questions to assist masters, mates and engineering officers with written and oral examinations.

Across its 12 chapters the book covers floodable and permissible length curves, icing allowances – effects on trim and stability, tabular and assigned freeboard values and load lines and freeboard marks. It also revised effects of side winds on stability – wind levers and wind moments, air draft considerations, synchronous rolling and parametic rolling of ships as well as associated dangers, recent SQA/MCA exam questions and an updated glossary of ship terms and nomenciature.

This book is required reading for seafarers and students alike and an important resource for naval architecture students, shipboard officers and shore-based staff, including dry-dock personnel, ship-designers, ship surveyors, port authorities, marine consultants and superintendents.

Dr C.B. Barrass is a Lecturer in Ship Technology at Liverpool John Moores University and an International Maritime Consultant, he is a specialist on ship stability and ship squat. Captain D.R. Derrett was formerly Head of Navigation Department at Hull Nautical College.

This well-established textbook has been fully reviewed and updated by a new author to ensure a modern coverage of the contents in depth. A new unique introduction has been written, giving ship types together with their general characteristics, to indicate to the reader actual or typical sizes of modern day merchant vessels.

Four new chapters have also been added dealing with Ship Squat, the Deadweight scale, Interaction and The Trim and Stability book. A new section, on draft surveys, is included in the appendices. In order to give the student a better understanding of ship strength, four smaller but more detailed chapters replace the chapter covering this subject area in the previous edition.

Ship stability, with respect to motions, can be defined as the ability of a ship to return to an initial condition after she has been subjected to disturbing forces and moments. Ship Stability can also exist with respect to materials stresses and forces, where it is the ability to return to an initial state after being subjected to external or internal forces. Careful attention has been paid to the basic principles of ship stability and ship strength. Included is a generous provision of worked examples and exercise questions with answers. These ensure that the maritime student who works through this book will have a clear grasp of the topics covered.

Ship Stability for Masters and Mates
By C.B. Barrass and D.R. Derrett
Published by Elsevier Ltd
ISBN 0 7506 6784 5
Paperback 534 pages
Price £10.99