Practical Ship Design

A book or this sort would be a poor thing if it did not draw on many sources and I would acknowledge that some parts of it almost take the form of an anthology and would express my thanks to the authors of many technical papers from which either text or illustrations have been drawn. I have tried to obtain permission for all these quotations and think I have acknowledged the source in every case but ask forgiveness if any permissions have not been obtained or if any acknowledgements have been accidentally omitted. It would be very helpful if any reader spotting an error would inform the publishers so that a correction can be made should there be a later edition - one of the joys of word processing being the ease with which such changes can be made. I have also come to appreciate that although I can justifiably claim to have a particularly wide experience of ship design covering many ship types, my knowledge of specific subjects lacks the depth that an expert whose interest is limited to one or two subjects can be expected to have in his speciality. Reading and re-reading IMO and DTI rules, appropriate parts of LLoyds rules, books on naval architecture and many technical papers and magazines has helped considerably, but the simplification and drastic condensation of some very lengthy and complex rules to the precis form which is the essence of this book was not an easy task and it seemed quite likely that there might be some errors.

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