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Preface
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 Certi®cates of Competency for Deck Of®cers and Engineering Of®cers. It will, however, also prove extremely useful to Maritime Studies degree students when studying the subject and will prove a ready and handy reference for those persons responsible for the stability of ships. I trust that this book, which is printed to include up-to-date syllabuses and specimen examination papers, will offer assistance to all of these persons.
Acknowledgement is made to the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Of®ce for permission to reproduce Crown copyright material, being the Ministry of Transport Notice No. M375, Carriage of Stability Information, Forms M.V. `Exna' (1) and (2), Merchant Shipping Notice No. M1122, Simpli®ed Stability Information, Maximum Permissible Deadweight Diagram, and extracts from the Department of Transport Examination Syllabuses.
SpecimenexaminationpapersgiveninAppendixVIarereproducedby kind permission of the Scottish Quali®cations Authority (SQA), based in Glasgow.
Note:
Throughout this book, when dealing with Transverse Stability, BM, GM and KM will be used. When dealing with Longitudinal Stability, i.e. Trim, then BML, GML and KML will be used to denote the longitudinal considerations. Hence no suf®x `T' for Transverse Stability, but suf®x `L' for the Longitudinal Stability text and diagrams.
C. B. Barrass