Vessels and structures that operate in seawater.
9 topics · 10 curated works
No prior grounding assumed.
Basic Principles of Ship Propulsion
MAN Energy Solutions · 2018
Explains how a ship's hull, propeller and engine must be matched as one system, arguing that most propulsion inefficiency comes from optimising one…
Assumes you know the vocabulary.
Final Report of a Board of Investigation Convened by Order of the Secretary of the Navy to Inquire into the Design and Methods of Construction of Welded Steel Merchant Vessels
United States Navy Department · 1947
Traces the brittle fracture of all-welded Liberty ships to the way continuous welds let a crack run the length of the hull that riveted construction…
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On the Rolling of Ships
William Froude · 1861
Models a ship's roll as a forced pendulum with a natural period set by its metacentric height, and argues from that model that bilge keels damp roll…
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10 works
MAN Energy Solutions
Explains how a ship's hull, propeller and engine must be matched as one system, arguing that most propulsion inefficiency comes from optimising one of the three in isolation.
link checked 17 Sept 2026United States Navy Department
Traces the brittle fracture of all-welded Liberty ships to the way continuous welds let a crack run the length of the hull that riveted construction would have arrested, changing how ship structures were designed against fracture.
link checked 17 Sept 2026United States Bureau of Naval Personnel
Works through shipboard propulsion, steam and gas turbine plants, and auxiliary systems as an integrated engineering plant, written as the standard training reference for the officers who operate them.
MIT OpenCourseWare
Shows that a hull is a negotiation between stability, resistance and seakeeping which cannot all be maximised together, so every boat is a statement about which of them mattered most.
link checked 17 Sept 2026William Froude
Models a ship's roll as a forced pendulum with a natural period set by its metacentric height, and argues from that model that bilge keels damp roll more effectively than added beam.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Edward L. Attwood
Derives a ship's stability, trim and strength from the same calculus of areas and moments applied to its hull form, treating naval architecture as applied geometry rather than a craft of rules of thumb.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Notes on this copyDavid W. Taylor
Argues that a ship's resistance and required power can be predicted from systematic model-testing data organised by hull-form parameters, rather than derived case-by-case from theory.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Notes on this copyJ. R. Morison, M. P. O'Brien, J. W. Johnson & S. A. Schaaf
Splits the wave force on a submerged pile into a drag term and an inertia term added together, giving offshore engineers a workable design formula in place of solving the full fluid-structure problem.
Norman Friedman
Traces submarine design as a sequence of trade-offs forced by the ability to see and be seen underwater, arguing that operational doctrine drove hull-form choices as much as any hydrodynamic theory did.
United States Army Corps of Engineers
Sets out the wave, sediment-transport and structural design methods behind every US harbour and coastal-defence project, treating coastal engineering as one connected discipline rather than separate specialities of waves, sediment and structures.