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Worked Example 1: Pool

A box shaped vessel has a length of 50 metres, a beam of 8 metres and a lightship draft of 2 metres. The lightship KG is 3 metres. The vessel has a swimming pool, with the base of the pool 4 metres above the keel. The pool is 15 metres long, and 8 metres wide. Determine the effective GM of the vessel if the pool is filled to a depth of 1 metre with fresh water.

Worked Example 1: Pool

The lightship displacement can be found from the geometry, draft and water density:
= LBT = 50 8 2 1.025 = 820 tonnes

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Worked Example 1: Pool

To start with, we treat the fluid as a solid cargo. The process of calculation is identical to loading a solid cargo:
Cargo Mass = 15 8 1 1.000 = 120 tonnes

Cargo KG = Base Of Fluid Above Keel + Cargo KG = 4 +

Fluid Depth 2

1 = 4.5 metres 2

Worked Example 1: Pool

A loading table can be used to find the solid KG of the vessel:

Item Lightship Pool Water Totals Mass 820 120 940 KG 3 4.5 Moment 2460 540 3000

Solid KG =

Total Moment 3000 = = 3.19m Total Mass 940

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Worked Example 1: Pool

The draft, BM,KB and GM can be found in the loaded (solid) condition:
LB 940 T= = 2.29m 50 8 1.025 T=
T 2.29 = = 1.15 metres 2 2

KB =

50 8 3 I 12 BM = = = 2.33 metres 50 8 2.29

GM = KB + BM - KG GM = 1.15 + 2.33 - 3.19 = 0.28 metres

Worked Example 1: Pool

The free surface effect can now be calculated:

Loss In GM = IF/S F/S n2

15 8 3 1.000 Loss In GM = 12 = 0.68 metres 940 12

Fluid GM = Solid GM - Loss In GM Fluid GM = 0.28 - 0.68 = -0.40 metres

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Worked Example 1: Pool

Clearly the vessel is dangerously unstable. Free surface effect is strongly influenced by the beam of the free surface. Reducing the beam by adding longitudinal watertight baffles in the fluid. This is modelled by the n value (not the tank length and beam).
Loss In GM = IF/S F/S n2

15 8 3 1.000 12 = 0.17 metres Loss In GM = 940 2 2 Fluid GM = Solid GM - Loss In GM Fluid GM = 0.28 - 0.17 = 0.11 metres
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