This book was written primarily to meet the needs of the UK students when studying, either in their spare time at sea or ashore, for department of transport certificates of competecy for deck officers and engineering offices. | Ship Stability for Masters and Mates Fifth edition Captain D. R. Derrett Revised by Dr C. B. Barrass RI UTTERWORTH E 1 N E M A N N OXFORD AUCKLAND BOSTON JOHANNESBURG MELBOURNE NEW DELHI Butterworth-Heinemann Linacre House Jordan Hill Oxford 0X2 8DP 225 Wildwood Avenue Woburn MA 01801-2041 A division of Reed Educational and Professional Publishing Ltd A member of the Reed Elsevier pic group First published by Stanford Maritime Ltd 1964 Third edition metric 1972 Reprinted 1973 1975 1977 1979 1982 Fourth edition 1984 Reprinted 1985 First published by Reed Educational and Professional Publishing Ltd 1990 Reprinted 1990 twice 1991 1993 1997 1998 1999 Fifth edition 1999 Reprinted 2000 D. R. Derrett 1984 1990 1999 and Reed Educational and Professional Publishing Ltd 1999 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any material form including pnotocopying or storing in any medium by electronic means and whether or not transiently or incidentally to some other use of this publication without the written permission of the copyright holder except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 or under the terms of a licence issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd 90 Tottenham Court Road London England W1P OLP Applications for the copyright holder s written permission to reproduce any part of this publication should be addressed to the publishers British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publicaion Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress ISBN 0 7506 4101 0 Typesetting and artwork creation by David Gregson Associates Beedes Suffolk Printed and bound in Great Britain by Biddles Guildford Surrey FOB EYEJtY W mr W KBUSH mHi ÜEMAl WILL MTH BTCYTO PLCff AW CAM FOB A Tt E. Contents Preface vii Introduction ix Ship types and general characteristics xi 1 Forces and
