Ship Construction and Calculations

The full course notes of the U.S. Naval Academy's EN400 course: hull form, hydrostatics, stability, ship structure, resistance and powering, seakeeping, maneuvering and submarines. Worked examples and lab guides make it a complete first course in naval architecture.

United States Naval Academy

A classic textbook written by a Royal Navy constructor to explain the calculations of the drawing office: areas, volumes, displacement, centres of gravity, stability, the inclining experiment and strength. Includes 114 diagrams and exercises with answers.

Edward L. Attwood

Sir Edward Reed, Chief Constructor of the Royal Navy, explains metacentric height, curves of stability and the behaviour of ships when heeled. A landmark treatise on ship stability, full of diagrams and worked cases.

Edward J. Reed

A study guide covering practical naval architecture, laying off and theory, with almost 200 fully worked answers to exam questions. A good way to practise displacement, tonnage and stability problems step by step.

W. J. Lovett