Reeds Vol 13: Ship Stability, Powering and Resistance

Jonathan Ridley, Christopher Patterson, Chris Patterson

• Publisher: Reeds
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781472969705
• Edition: 2
• eBook ISBN:
  9781472969675
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Study Guides
• Index: Technology & Engineering

This indispensable guide to ship stability covers essential topics such as flotation and buoyancy, small angle, large angle and longitudinal stability, water density effects, bilging, ship resistance, and advanced hydrostatics. Each chapter has a comprehensive list of aims and objectives at the start of the topic, followed by a checklist at the end of the topic for students to ensure that they have developed all the relevant skills before moving onto the next topic area.

The book features over 170 worked examples with fully explained solutions, enabling students to work through the examples to build up their knowledge and develop the necessary key skills. The worked examples, which range in difficulty from very simple one-step solutions to SQA standard exam questions and above, are predominantly based on a hypothetical ship. The reader is supplied with extracts from a typical data book for the ship which replicates those found on actual ships, enabling the reader to develop and practise real-life skills.


This edition has been fully updated in line with the recently changed rules and regulations around ship stability and the updated national exam syllabus. Updates include corrections and clarifications to worked examples, new text on damaged stability and probabilistic stability, extra content on hydrostatic forces and centres of pressure, and extra content on stability information for small craft.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Reeds Marine Engineering and Technology Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Nomenclature
• Introduction
• 1. Flotation and Buoyancy
• 2. Small angle or initial Metacentric Stability – Will My Ship Float Upright?
• 3. Large angle Stability – Just How Far Can She Roll?
• 4. Longitudinal Stability – Fore and Aft Balance
• 5. Additional Calculations and Processes
• 6. Bilging and Damaged Stability
• 7. Calculating Hull Shear Force and Bending Moment
• 8. Calculating Hydrostatics Using Simpson’s Rule
• 9 Ship Resistance
• 10 Ship Propulsion
• 11 Screw Propellers
• 12 Propeller alternatives for High-Speed Craft
• 13 Rudders
• 14 Hydrostatic force, Pressure and Centre of Pressure
• 15 Wind Propulsion for Ships
• 16 Solutions to Questions
• Appendix 1 Mv Reed – Sample Stability Data Booklet
• Appendix 2 Derivation of archimedes’ Principle for Box Shaped
• Appendix 3 Derivation of archimedes’ Principle for Semi-Circu
• Appendix 4 Linear interpolation Using the Equation of a Strai
• Appendix 5 the Derivation of the Tpc formula
• Appendix 6 the Derivation of the Fresh Water allowance formul
• Appendix 7 the Derivation of the Change in Kg formula
• Appendix 8 the Derivation of the formulae Giving the Transver
• Appendix 9 the Derivation of the Relationship Between Transve
• Appendix 10 the Derivation of the Relationship Between Transv
• Appendix 11 Maximum angles of List On Passenger Vessels Due t
• Appendix 12 the Derivation of the formula Giving the angle of
• Appendix 13 the Derivation of the formulae Describing the Eff
• Appendix 14 Passenger Vessel Heel in a Turn
• Appendix 15 Derivation of the increase in Draught When Heelin
• Appendix 16 the MaThematical Proof of the Determination of Gm
• Appendix 17 the Derivation of the angle of Heel in a Turn for
• Appendix 18 the MaThematical Proof of Simpson’s Rule
• Appendix 19 alternative Criteria for Large angle Stability (T
• Appendix 20 the Direct Calculation of the area Under a Generi
• Appendix 21 the Derivation of the Wall-Sided formula for appr
• Appendix 22 the Derivation of the formula Giving the Effectiv
• Appendix 23 the Derivation of the formula Giving the Longitud
• Appendix 24 the Derivation of the formula Giving the Longitud
• Appendix 25 the Derivation of the Moment to Change Trim by 1
• Appendix 26 the Derivation of the Trim Equation
• Appendix 27 the Derivation of the formula Linking Cargo Densi
• Appendix 28 Derivation of the formula Giving the Transverse i
• Appendix 29 Derivation of the Parallel axis theorem (Huygens-
• Appendix 30 Direct Calculation of Shear force and Bending Mom
• Appendix 31 Properties of Water
• Appendix 32 Hydrostatic force, Pressure and Centre of Pressur
• Appendix 33 the Derivation of the formulae for apparent Wind
• Works Cited
• Index