Ship design and performance for masters and mates C.B. Barrass

Part 1 Ship design -- Preliminary estimates for new ships: main dimensions -- Preliminary estimates for group weights for a new ship -- Preliminary capacities for a new ship -- Approximate hydrostatic particulars -- Types of ship resistance -- Types of ship speed -- Types of power in ships -- Power coefficients on ships -- Preliminary design methods for a ship's propeller and rudder -- Nomenclature for ship design and performance --Part 2 Ship performance -- Modern merchant ships -- Ships of this millennium -- Ship trials: a typical 'diary of events' -- Ship trials: speed performance on the measured mile -- Ship trials: endurance and fuel consumption -- Ship trials: manoeuvring trials and stopping characteristics -- Ship trials: residual trials --Ship squat in open water and in confined channels -- Reduced ship speed and decreased propeller revolutions in shallow waters -- The phenomena of interaction of ships in confined waters -- Ship vibration -- Performance enhancement in ship-handling mechanisms -- Improvements in propeller performance -- Useful design and performance formulae -- Revision one-liners for student's examination preparation -- How to pass examinations in maritime studies.