SHIP CONSTRUCTION

complex of activities concerned with the design and fabrication of all marine vehicles. Ship construction today is a complicated compound of art and science. In the great days of sail, vessels were designed and built on the basis of practical experience; ship construction was predominantly a skill. With the rapid growth and development of the physical sciences, beginning in the early 19th century, it was inevitable that hydrokinetics (the study of fluids in motion), hydrostatics (the study of fluids at rest), and the science of materials and structures should augment the shipbuilder's skill. The consequence of this was a rapid increase in the size, speed, commercial value, and safety of ships. Additional reading D.G.M. Watson, Estimating Preliminary Dimensions in Ship Design, Trans. Instn. Engrs. Shipbldrs. Scotl., 105:110174 (196162), a comprehensive treatment of merchant ship design, rich in factual information and providing a series of useful graphsan ingenious method of designing by volume is explained; T. Lamb, A Ship Design Procedure, Mar. Technology, 6:362405 (1969), a useful treatment of the subject, covering all types of merchant ships, with an extensive bibliography; R.V. Turner, M. Harper, and D.I. Moor, Some Aspects of Passenger Liner Design, Trans. R. Instn. Nav. Archit., 105:379414 (1963), a thoroughly practical paper dealing with the resistance, machinery, performance, stability, strength, and general arrangement of large passenger vessels; F.G. Fassett, Jr. (ed.), The Shipbuilding Business in the United States of America, 2 vol. (1948, reprinted 1970); D.J. Eyres, Ship Construction, 2nd ed. (1978). H.L. Seward (ed.), Marine Engineering, 2 vol. (194244), on all forms of prime movers, thermodynamics, and metals; J.H. Milton, Marine Steam Boilers, 4th ed. (1980), on natural and forced circulated boilers, superheaters, and classification society rules; A. Stodola and L.C. Loewenstein, Steam and Gas Turbines, 6th ed., 2 vol. (1927); H. Roxbee Cox (ed.), Gas Turbine Principles and Practice (1955), on thermodynamics, compressor and turbine design, materials, and fuels; C.C. Pounder et al., Marine Diesel Engines, 5th ed. (1972), a study of all well-known types, design, construction, and maintenance; L.R. Ford, Practical Marine Diesel Engineering, 4th ed. (1943), on operation and maintenance, with questions and answers; S. Glasstone and A. Sesonske, Nuclear Reactor Engineering, 2nd ed. (1980), originally prepared and compiled under auspices of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission in 1963.