Problems on Longitudinal stability
(b. Damaged Stability)
1. Briefly explain the following two methods of assessment of ship's condition after flooding. (i)
Added weight method, (ii) Lost Buoyancy method.
2. A box barge 60 m long and 8 m wide floats at an even keel draught of 4 m. It has a compartment
amidships 12 m long. Calculate the new draught if this compartment is laid open to the sea
when:
(i) µ is 100%
(ii) µ is 85% ,
where µ is permeability of said compartment.
3. A box barge 60m long and 10m wide floats at an even keel draught of 4 meters. It has a
compartment of located amidships and 12 m. long. Calculate the new draughts if this
compartment is laid open to sea, when the permeability is 60%.
4. A vessel of constant rectangular cross section is 60 m long and 10 m wide. It floats at a
level keel draught of 3 m and has a centre of gravity 2.5 m above the keel. Determine
the fore and aft draughts if an empty, full width, fore-end compartment 8 m long is
opened to the sea. For simplicity a permeability of 100 percent is assumed.
5. A box barge 30 m long and 8 m beam floats at a level keel draught of 3 m and has a mid-
length compartment 6 m long. Calculate the new draught if this compartment is bilged.
Permeability of the bilged compartment is 75%
6. A box barge 120 m long and 8 m beam floats at an even keel draught of 3 m and has an
empty compartment 6 m long at the extreme fore end. The centre of gravity is 2.8 m
above the keel. Calculate the final draughts if this compartment is bilged.
7. A box-shaped vessel is 150 metres long,24 metres wide,12 metres deep, and is floating
on an even keel at 5 metres draft. GM = 0.9 metres. A compartment amidships is 20
metres long and is empty. Find the new GM if this compartment is bilged.
