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THE STABILITY OF SHIPS. 



BY 



SIR EDWARD J. REED, K.C.B., F.R.S., M.P., 



CMSOHT OF THB IMPERIAL ORDERS OF ST. STANILAUS OF RUSSIA; FRANCIS JOSEPH Of 



AUSTRIA ; MEDJIDIE OF TURKEY ; AND RISING SUN OF JAPAN ; VICK- 



PRKSIDENT OF THK INSTITUTION OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS. 



With numerous Illustrations and Tables. 



THIS work has beeu written for the purpose of placing in the hands of Naval Constructors, 

 Shipbuilders, Officers of the Royal and Mercantile Marines, and all Students of Naval Science, 

 a complete Treatise upon the Stability of Ships, and is the only work in the English 

 Language dealing exhaustively with the subject. 



In order to render the work complete for the purposes of the Shipbuilder, whether at 

 home or abroad, the Methods of Calculation introduced by Mr. F. K. BARNES, Mr. GRAY, 

 M. REECH, M. DAYMARD, and Mr. BENJAMIN, are all given separately, illustrated bjr 

 Tables and worked-out examples. The book contains more than 200 Diagrams, and vt 

 {illustrated by a large number of actual cases, derived from ships of all descriptions, but 

 specially from ships of the Mercantile Marine. 



The work will thus be found to constitute the most comprehensive and exhaustive Treads* 

 ytherto presented to the Profession on the Science of the STABILITY OF SHIPS, 



" Sir EDWARD REEJS'S ' STABILITY OF SHIPS ' is INVALUABLE. In it the STUDENT, new 

 *o the subject, will find the path prepared for him, and all difficulties explained with the 

 utmost care and accuracy ; the SHIP-DRAUGHTSMAN will find all the methods of calculation at 

 present in use fully explained and illustrated, and accompanied by the Tables and Forms 

 employed ; the SHIPOWNER will find the variations in the Stability of Ships due to differences 

 in forms and dimensions fully discussed, and the devices by which the state of his ships under 

 all conditions may be grapliically represented and easily understood ; the NAVAL ARCHITECT 

 will find brought together and ready to his hand, a mass of information which he would other- 

 wise have to seek in an almost endless variety of publications, and some of which he wculd 

 possibly not be able to obtain at all elsewhere." Steamship. 



"This IMPORTANT AND VALUABLE WORK . . . cannot be too highly recommended to 

 mil connected with shipping interests." Iron. 



" This VERY IMPORTANT TREATISE, . . . the MOST INTELLIGIBLE, INSTRUCTIVE, and 



<COMPLHTK that has ever appeared." Nature. 



"The volume is an ESSENTIAL ONB for th shipbuilding profession." Westminster 

 Rtvieiv. 



COMPANION-WORK. 



THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF SHIPS. 



BY JOHN HARVARD BILES, M.Inst.N.A., 



Professor of Naval Architecture in the University of Glasgow. 

 In Preparation. 



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