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The book's particular purpose is to indicate the design considerations in the use of aluminium for ships with special reference to the design of superstructures, and it includes appropriate discussions of constructional techniques. Chapters look at: Types of shipbuilding alloys including aluminium, the Availability of materials including ranges of sections, Classification Societies and aluminium alloys, Design considerations, Buckling of aluminium alloy structures, Strength of superstructures, Joining of aluminium parts, Minor structural parts and equipment, Fire protection in passenger ships and The influence of the use of aluminium alloys on the design of ships.

The recent development of ro-ro passenger ferries is considered. Application of SOLAS 90 and the Stockholm Agreement is discussed for both newbuildings and existing ferries by describing typical two examples. Space below freeboard deck; centre or side casings; rational cargo handling; efficient arrangement for trailer ferry; damage stability; and upgrading existing ro-ro passenger ferries are all areas investigated.

A description is provided of how the provisions of classification are applied to naval ships and how Lloyd's Register's Rules and Regulations for the Classification of Naval Ships have been developed. The development of a flexible system which meets the needs of different navies to enable them to bring within the scope of classification specialised ship structures and engineering systems is presented. First a look is taken at the classification process followed by naval ship classification. Next military aspects are considered. After this commercial standards and international conventions are looked at.

Covers topics such as ship construction, machinery equipment, classification, maintenance, safety, stability, trim and draught, registration, tonnage, freeboard, collision regulations and navigation lights, crew spaces, anchors and chain cables, and stowage.

Ships through the ages, written and illustrated for a younger audience.

Describes the features of centralised and automatic control systems applied to ships' machinery and underlines the basic requirements necessary in the interests of reliability and efficiency. Part 1 - General considerations relating to centralised and/or automatic controls for main and auxiliary machinery in ships. Part 2 - Recommendations for the design and construction of systems of centralised engine room control and/or automatic control.

In 2011 P&O Ferries will introduce the Spirit of Britain and Spirit of France as an entirely new generation of cross-Channel ferries. These new ships will be the largest ferries operating between Dover and Calais. P&O have made a considerable commitment to these new vessels. The background and the development and construction of these new ships are brought together in this book together with a wealth of photography.

High oil prices and an increased focus on exhaust emissions from ships make natural gas in form of LNG a new promising fuel in the short sea-shipping segment. Availability of LNG in general and in small scale is improving. The technology of LNG storage and bunkering is improving. Gas engines are mainly designed for land-based power production and need adjustments for ship propulsion. Requirements for gas engines in ship operation are discussed. Interim guidelines for gas-fuelled ships are under development within IMO and Norway is co-ordinating this work. Some of the work is presented together with the challenge for design the propulsion system for gas-fuelled ships. Some experiences of gas-fuelled ships in Norway are presented. A new series of five large LNG car ferries will be in operation in late 2006 and two supply vessels have been in operation for two years. Both technical solutions economical aspects and emission levels are discussed.

The Internaional Ships and Ports Security (ISPS) Code comes into effect on 1 July 2004. Acordingly all passenger ships cargo ships over 500gt on international voyages including high speed crafts will have to carry onboard approved Ship Security Plan (SSP) and Ship Security Certificate (SSC). In essence the underlying purpose of the Code is to make ships and ports more secure and resilient to many growing threats from terrorism to theft and pilferage. However from the author's point of view it does little more than raise awareness of these threats. In this paper some of the inherent weaknesses in the present approach are highlighted and a new modular approach to ship and port security based on a quantifiable relative risk index (RRI) developed by the author is introduced.

This doctoral thesis deals with dynamic stability problems of Ro-Ro ships, covering three aspects: analysis of capsize incidents of some Ro-Ro ships, development of analysis tools and studies of some dynamic stability problems of some Ro-Ro ships. The investigations of several capsizing incidents, e.g. the Ro-Ro passenger-ship 'Herald of Free Enterprise', forms the basis for this work. The thesis consists of 6 papers, all written by the author. These are as follows: 'A Theoretical Study on the capsize of the ferry 'Herald of Free Enterprise', 'A study of the parametrically excited roll motion of a Ro-Ro ship in following and heading waves', 'A description of SMS - A computer code for ship motion simulation', 'A study of the dynamic stability of a Ro-Ro ship in waves', 'A representation of a ship's GM -variation in waves by the Volterra system' and 'A probabilistic study of the simultaneous effect of ship motions on the cargo onboard'.

A look is taken at a study of the Ship Design Laboratory of NTUA. This study aims to outline a methodology for the correct estimation of the roll radius of gyration of existing and new ships to apply this to a characteristic sample of existing ro-ro passenger ships to review existing semi-empirical formulas for the determination of the roll radius of gyration of ro-ro passenger ships and to conclude on the practical implications of the correct estimation and reproduction in model scale of the roll radius of gyration to the validity of the Model Test results.

This is the Summary of the Report on Tests Concerning Fires in Ships' Corridors The report describes and considers the fairly searching investigations caused to be undertaken by the Directorate of the Government Ships Inspection Service and the State Testing Laboratory – in particular by the Committee appointed by the Directorate – assisted by the Association of Shipyards, the Shipowners’ Association and the Fire Protection Committee for the purpose of examining the influence that exposed surfaces may have on the development of fire in ships. Contents include: Summary of development since 1952; Report on Full Scale Tests; Report on Laboratory Tests; Analysis of full scale test results; Analysis of Laboratory Tests Results and comparison with Full Scale test results; Final Remarks. Accompanying the Summary, there is the Report itself and the Appendices.

In the design construction and management of ships there appear to be few opportunities for communication between providers (designers) and users. Ships are often large complex single entities including hundreds of technical sub-systems and components from a variety of sources. The designers and providers of large ships do not usually have the advantages of volume production industries where considerable resources can be devoted to prototyping and testing the completed assembly before commitment is made to final production. In the absence of this however the experience of ships' users (those who build manage operate maintain own and travel on ships) can provide large amounts of valuable information for the design of new ships. This feedback informs designers of the good features to be continued and developed the failures and weaknesses and even some ideas about how to improve them. Techniques that are used to successfully capture user feedback for the design of land-based buildings and facilities are described. Experience from marine design shows that these techniques have considerable potential for the ship design and construction industries as well as for the owners and operators of ships.