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Ship Design and Construction
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The 1980 edition of Ship Design and Construction is a descendant of the Design and Construction of Steel Merchurlt S11ips, published by the Society in 1955, and the rekrision of that book entitled Ship Desigrl and Construction published in 1969. Although its antecedents covered much of the same general subject matter, the present volume has been essentially completely rewritten and thus stands alone as a significantly different form of treatise on the subject.
The emphasis has been placed upon the design and construction of ships to fulfill specific missions; throughout the text the rationale for configuring the ship to do a specific job or a specified multiplicityo f jobs is highlighted. As a result, few of the chapters contained herein are directly comparable to those found in the previous editions. Additionally chapters on Load Lines, Tonnage, and Launching, previously covered in the Principles of Naval Architecture are now more logically contained within this volume as well as chapters on Contracting Arrangements and Trials and Preparations for Delivery.
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