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The subjects of the book are grouped to present a clear picture of the ship's operation. The bridge with its navigational instruments and communications, being the control centre of the ship, is dealt with first. Secondly come the engines and boiler rooms including auxiliary machinery and propellers. Deck gear such as derricks, winches and anchors come next, then ventilation and refrigeration. Finally there are safety measures.

An attempt is made to investigate factors in and their effects on the total loss risk of a ship accident i.e. on the (conditional) probability that a ship accident (having occurred) will lead to the total loss of the ship. A look is taken at a ship total loss propensity model followed by data. Next the estimation results are considered. After this incremental loss risk estimates are addressed. Lastly policy implications are outlined.

In this paper an attempt is made to include crew safety in the preliminary ship design as an explicit node or condition. In this preliminary study the goal was to design ships with improved seakeeping characteristics. The procedure followed is based on the use of an expert system shell Echidna which has features that make it more suitable for design in general. In theory any nonlinear solution solver that includes inequalities and equalities could be used to design a ship. Echidna's built in logic is able to handle constraints that is the ability to reduce the design space through propagating constraints on the corresponding design parameters. The applications presented in this paper are the development of a code in Echidna to design a displacement type boat suitable for the Pacific coast of Canada. The application of the Expert System shell is based on standard nodes equations and/or constraints of ship design. The shell is expected to find a solution within the constraints specified. The Echidna Expert System usually is able to find a solution and supply the result as a range for the ship parameters.

Symp held in New South Wales 8 - 9 Nov 1977 Papers are Shipping - the link between Australian meatworks and the world The Australian shipper - his shipping needs Communication and the container concept The bulk revolution A shippers dilemma - unitizing to developing countries The transport of goods for the grocer Australian dry bulk export shipping - cooperation or coercion Ship design strategy - concepts and constraints Ship design - optimisation and compromise Livestock carrier concepts - Australian/Middle East trade How very large tankers cargoes could be discharged in Australia to gain freight benefits Port facilities - designing for change The port zone - a scarce community resource Port management in a changing industry Ship queuing and port turnround time The impact of cargo safety on ship management Training and development courses in the shipping and stevedoring industry Safety aspects of cargo handling equipment in New South Wales Design considerations and future trends for port facilities Navigation - a key factor in ship management Small trading ship navigation of the Great Barrier Reef inner route The international chart - present and future Latest trends in marine electronics navigation systems The changing world of maritime communications

In the early design stages of ship hulls computer-based methods are used to check improve and compare multiple design alternatives. In the field of fluid dynamics increasing ship speeds place emphasis on the reduction of resistance. Codes based on potential flow theory are used to estimate and analyse the flow around the ship's hull and to determine the wave-induced resistance. The distribution of panels on the hull has a significant impact on the accuracy of the overall power prediction. Creating the panels on the hull surface especially for modern hull forms is a resource intensive non- or semi-automated task requiring a profound experience-based knowledge. The time needed for the manual definition of the mesh is high. No methods are known at present for automatically creating panel discretisations of ship hull forms. Mesh generation methods for potential flow calculations require appropriate descriptions of the ship hull surface. The IGES standard is a widely used format in the shipbuilding industry for the exchanges of ship hull forms. Methods are presented here to prepare ship hull form descriptions based on IGES files which are later used for potential flow calculations. Two major problems are solved: topology recovery and knuckle detection.

The use of VR (virtual reality) technology for planning ship repair operations is discussed. The creation of a VR-based environment is described. This allows the virtual execution of critical operations such as ship docking ship positioning verification and transfer of equipment and components on the ship. This virtual docking environment enables the user to verify design aspects of ship repair operations from an ergonomic perspective to place the ship on the shipyard dock as well as to evaluate alternative ways of positioning control the cranes and obtain critical quantitative information about the executed process. The simulation functions of the VR application and the capability of the system to deal with complex shipyard operations are presented and discussed.

A short history of Discovery and the Antarctic expedition of 1901 to 1904.

The ship dynamic stability criteria in the IMO Interim Standards for Ship Manoeuvrability - IMO Assembly resolution A.751(18) - are looked at. Course-keeping ability estimation for several ships is compared based on calculating both zig-zag and spiral manoeuvres. The spiral test gives a direct estimation of ship straight-line stability whereas the zig-zag test may give only an indirect assessment of this quality. The examples provided show the importance of including spiral tests in the procedure of ship manoevrability estimation.

This collectors edition contains a run of monthly 'Ships and Ship Models' magazines, from September 1931 through to August 1932 (Volume 1, No.1 to Volume 1, No. 12). Contents range from the useful 'Ship Modeller's Scrapbook' to model steamer design, an early notice of the work of the late Norman Ough, a series on notable ships and a discussion on the oldest ships afloat 1931-32. Also an article on figureheads, 'How to build a model of a Dutch Admiralty Yacht', ship models in bottles, Ramsgate sailing trawlers and ship models at the Royal United Service Museum.

This revised edition contains recommendations by the Admiralty Ship Welding Committee for the guidance of shipbuilders, designers, inspectors and foremen engaged in the fabrication of ships' structures by welding. It covers design, edge preparation, welding procedure, assembly and welding sequence, workmanship and supervision, automatic welding.

Formerly 'Muckle's Naval Architecture for Marine Designers' The fundamental characteristics of a ship's design and how they affect its behaviour at sea are of great importance to a variety of different people, including naval architects and marine engineers. The book gives a clear and concise introduction to the subject. Compared to the Third Edition, there is greater emphasis on the work of national and international regulatory organisations and of the classification societies. Safety and environmental pollution receive more attention in line with growing public concerns. The discussion on different ship types has been made broader reflecting the greater diversity of designs within any one ship type. Chapters comprise of: Ship design, Definition and regulation, Ship form calculations, Flotation and stability (equilibrium, stability, hydrostatic curves), The external environment (water, wind, waves, extremes, marine pollution), Stability at large angles, Launching, docking and grounding, Resistance (fluid flow, the Froude notation, wave-making resistance, frictional resistance, roughness, model and full-scale tests), Propulsion (the screw propeller, torque, ship trails, main machinery power), Ship dynamics, Seakeeping (ship motions, stabilisation), Manoeuvring (turning circle, zig-zag, spiral, rudder, submarines), Main hull strength (stresses, forces on a ship, fatigue, superstructures, structural elements, transverse strength), Structural elements , Ship design (merchant ships, high-speed craft, warships).

Fenders absorb berthing energy and decrease any impact when berthing a ship. A ship's berthing energy is proportional to the virtual mass of the ship and the square of its approach velocity; however it is reduced by rotational motion caused by eccentric berthing. Currently fenders are designed by calculating the berthing energy for the maximum size ship and-or standard size ship taking into account ship mass virtual mass factor design approach velocity and eccentricity factor. The most suitable fender is then selected to absorb the ship's berthing energy. More recently ship size has increased. At some ports there is no berth to accommodate vast ships fully laden. As a result any ships that are larger than the design ship are obliged to lighten their draft at berthing. Even if the berth water depth is secured virtual approach velocity must be decreased. A fender was designed using a statistical method and the results of the analysis were previously presented to the llth ISOPE 2001. The probability of failure and of the safety factor of the fender design of container ships was calculated and presented previously. Here the arrival of conventional cargo ships in some major Japanese ports is analysed. All factors are treated as variable. The probability of the failure of a fender designed according to the current design standard is calculated by a statistical method. After this a statistical design method for fenders of berthing ships is proposed.

Redundant ship machinery (RSM) onboard improves the quality of ship operations but at high investment costs. Redundancy by more than one main engine could ensure higher economical efficiency of ship operations expressed by daily profit criteria. Discussion is presented of the speed flexibility impact on the economic behaviour of the 20 000 tdw multipurpose ship. It is concluded that RSM increases the flexibility of the ship's speed; assures a possibility for tuning of the operational speed to the optimal one in a wide range of operational conditions; and exerts a positive impact directly on daily profit thus improving the economical effectiveness of the ship.

Firstly ship collisions with bridges in Japan are surveyed and their causes are analyzed. The results of both hydraulic model tests and computations for ship's impact force on fender systems which protect bridge piers against ship collisions are presented. The parameters in these hydraulic model tests are mainly the load-deflection characteristics and spring constants of the fenders. Numerical simulations to evaluate ship motions and fender deflections against ship collisions are also presented and evaluated.

The modelling of ship structure in vibration analysis may be regarded as function of the design period or stage of a ship. It is important to choose an optimal ship structure model. A higher-degree beam representation of the ship hull with mode dependent vibration parameters is presented which gives reliable natural frequencies and response in the higher frequency domain but where preparation of data/computing time remain within the levels of a classical beam vibration calculation.

The book covers all aspects and stages of building a power-driven ship model. This includes chapters on: Hull building methods and materials, The engine room, Boilers, Feed pumps etc. The later chapters also include running and maintaining them and what to do to prevent accidents. The final chapter covers building ship's boats such as lifeboats and service boats. 4 pages of photographs of various powered ship models at the back of the book.

The ability to predict ship motion control response before errors occur allows better and more efficient ship control. This paper reviews the existing techniques in ship motion control and their shortcomings including Potential Integral and Derivation (PID) fuzzy logic and the Sliding Mode. It is also concerned with a qualitative description of the requirements of a predictive ship motion control system and strategy if it were adopted and also how a sea surface estimator can be used in achieving this goal. Paper topics include autopilot control predictive control ship dynamics predictor and sea surface estimators.

An assessment of the state-of-art in computer based ship design technology is presented. Integrated computer-based methods for ship design are stressed. The relationship of ship design methods with ship detail design and manufacturing technology is discussed. The design system and technology available from the International Marine Software Associates (IMSA) is presented as a case study of implementation of an integrated ship design environment.

2nd Int Lloyd's Ship Manager Ship Management Conf 1991. Papers are - Worldwide attitudes to management liability Limiting liability - what can a manager do Management liability - an insurer's view A year in the life of the OPA Do the risks outweigh the rewards Environmental responsibility and shipyard choice Quality management - is auditing necessary Who benefits from quality management Cost / benefit analysis of quality The ISMA and quality Flagging strategies International standards for ship registers Second national registers versus open registers Political factors affecting flag choice Enforcing standards - what standards - whose job Long- term potential of new crew sources Tomorrow's training requirements Recruitment - the Indian experience Cost-effective crew travel