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This third edition aims at giving information on dry-docking facilities for large ships throughout the world. Facilities are listed by country.

The Stone-Stommen Ducted Propeller System is the result of collaboration between Stone Manganese Marine and Strommen Staal and will involve the design and manufacture of propellers and nozzels for individual ship applications. The advantages of ducts on large ships are discussed.

The economic criteria applied during the concept design stage to assess alternative ship designs are presented. The influence of significant parameters of ships and ocean units on costs are tabulated. The results demonstrate the need to apply global economic criteria to single- and multi-criteria optimisation models as well as to traditional design algorithms.

Some experiences in the use of higher steam conditions in USA merchant ships and geared turbine drive are discussed. Factors include - principle machinery components; cycle arrangement; auxiliary components; choice of materials working stresses safety alloys for superheaters piping turbines; construction fabrication welding casting bending; control and operation.

The genius of Isambard Kingdom Brunel spanned many disciplines. His life story is retold and each of his great ships the Great Westernthe Great Britain (first screw-propelled iron ship)and the Great Eastern (double bottomed construction) is described.

The Register records the details of merchant ships of the world. Since the 1870s, Lloyd's Register has tried to include all merchant vessels over 100 gross tonnes, which are self-propelled and sea-going, regardless of classification.

A mathematical study examines the wave resistance wave elevation and free surface disturbances induced by geometric (rectangualr circular semicircular elongated triangular) pressure fields (uniform constant or linearly varying) in rectilinear motion over a free surface. The findings are combined to give an estimation of general pressure distribution. Applications for surface-effect ships are considered.

A feature which details the rising world demand for LNG and LPG shipping. In particular the use of LNG has been increasing as a result of environmental concerns and its cleaner burning characteristics. It is suggested that 30 new ships of about 135000 m3 could be needed by the year 2010.

In spite of being one of the most important ships in the world the Robin is largely unknown by the public and remains a secret treasure hidden away in London's Docklands. Hopefully this is about to change as a result of the efforts of the Robin Trust in restoring her. So what is so special about this vessel?

Three important factors for the safety of ships are discussed: human control the ship itself and the environment. The role of these factors in relation to safe ship handling is then considered. Given that the majority of collisions rammings and groundings can be traced to human error ways to improve operator skills are discussed with a particular emphasis on physical simulators.

A directory of ships relating to Volkswerft shipyard at Rostock. Written in German.

Features of and problems with designing steam pipework systems for ships discussed with reference to - flexibility; thermal expansion; bends; corrugations; flanges; anchorage; calculation of stiffness; stress analysis; auxiliary systems; and pull-up cold gaps. Practical methods of stress calculation used by the Admiralty described with illustrative examples.

This report aims to examine greenhouse gas emission reduction possibilities through different technical operational and market based approaches.

The design and operation of a range of survival equipment for use in ships and offshore rigs is discussed with reference to major development in enclosed lifeboats with full life-support fire-resisting lifeboats inflatable rubber liferafts launching davits free-fall lifeboats float-off life rafts and the particular requirements of lifeboats for offshore rigs.

Standard or series-built ships have a long history their development is reviewed. Designs on offer from British Shipbuilders are described and include Austin and Pickergills SD14 B26 bulk carrier SD18 tween decker Govans Cardiff Kuwait and Clyde cargoships Sunderland Shipbuild ers Panamax bulk carriers and Swan Hunters tanker series. The advantages of series building are discussed.

This publication profiles a selection of Australian defence industry companies which have achieved high standards in manufacturing and project management and developed Australian intellectual property rights to the equipment and systems used onboard the ANZAC Class Ships.

Aspects of surface-effect ships (SES) their design construction operation and applications are discussed including - historical account of development from initial work by US Navy in 1961 to date; types of craft design details configuration and performance of testcraft; comparison with other ship types in respect of power operating costs reliability damage vulnerability operating utility payload stowage capacity operating range

The implications of the MARPOL 1973 SOLAS 1974 conventions and their TSPP Protocols for the retrofit and conversion of existing ships especially in respect of CBT SBT COW and IGS are discussed Effects on structural seaholding stability and operational factors are considered

Full details are given of the mode of operation and advantages of the Syncrolift drydocking system for ships. Use is made of various pictorial representations of the system and of a chart to show a comparison of various dry docking systems.

Several of the major navies around the world have chosen to tread the path of the AES (all-electric ship) concept for their new-builds. Electric propulsion has come back into the military limelight in the past 10 years. Although it has never really gone out of fashion conventional submarines staying true to this concept for over 100 years electric propulsion was last seen in its prime during World Wear 2 when the USA had over 50 such surface ships in its fleet. With the developments in electrical machines and semi-conductor technology electric propulsion is back and several nations in particular the UK USA France and the Netherlands have adopted this on their new-builds this time taking it a step further making electricity the principal means of distributing energy onboard thus creating and AEA (all-electric ship). The new-builds that have adopted AES are mostly larger ships such as destroyers and carriers. But the AES concept is also a good solution for smaller ships and Sweden is one of a few countries exploring this idea. It has undertaken studies which demonstrate that the AES concept works well when applied to corvettes and boats. The advent of electrical weapons and armour makes it even more important to develop the small AES. Here insight is given into the efforts of Sweden (a small country with a limited budget) in the area of small AESs.