Merchant Ship Stability: A Companion to "Merchant Ship Construction"
by Pursey H.J
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
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Greenwood, Nova Scotia, Canada
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About This Item
Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd, 1957. Reprint of 1954 Second Edition. H.J. Pursey, Extra Master, Lecturer to the Department of Navigation University College, Southampton. The main body of the book is designed to cover the theory of ship stability up to and including the standard required for a Master's Certificate. Fifteen chapters cover: General Information - Areas and Volumes - Forces and Moments - Centre of Gravity of Ships - Centres of Buoyancy and Flotation - The Righting Lever and Metacentre - Transverse Statical Stability - Rolling - Miscellanous Matters - Stability Curves and Scales. Illustrated with diagrams. Displacement Curves and Deadweight Scales fold-out inserts in back of book. A List of Definitons and Abbreviations and Index. Name to ffep. A clean, bright book.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Gilt Edge Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B2031
- Title
- Merchant Ship Stability: A Companion to "Merchant Ship Construction"
- Author
- Pursey H.J
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd
- Place of Publication
- Glasgow
- Date Published
- 1957
- Keywords
- Areas and Volumes + Centre of Gravity + Specific Gravity + Ship Stability + Buoyancy + Flotation + Dry Docking + NOISBN
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- Jacket
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- Reprint
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