Some general information -- Areas and volumes -- Forces and moments -- Density, deadweight and draft -- Centre of gravity of ships -- Centres of buoyancy and flotation -- The righting lever and metacentre -- Transverse statical stability -- Free surface effect -- Transverse statical stability in practice -- Dynamical stability -- Longitudinal stability -- Stability curves and scales -- Bilging of compartments -- Stability and the load line rules -- Miscellaneous matters -- Rolling -- Summary -- Deadweight scale, hydrostatic particulars and hydrostatic curves.