BSc Nautical Sciences NAVAL ARCHITECTURE I Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026

Module I: INTRODUCTION: Development of ocean-going

• Merchant Ships. Modern merchant ships. TYPES OF SHIPS: types of ships based on nature of cargo. Passenger Liners, Ferries. Specialized carriers for General Cargo, Bulk, Oil (Crude Oil and Products) OBO’s, Container, RO- Ro, Lash, LPG, LNG, Cattle, Cars, etc. Special features of above types of ships. DEFINITIONS & MEANINGS: LOA, LBP, EB, MB, Depth, Draft, Freeboard, Camber, Sheer, Rake, Rise of floor, Tumble Home, etc. GENERAL LAYOUT OF SHIPS: - General Cargo Ship, Bulk Carrier, Oil Tanker and Container Ship. Simple sketches of the same.

Module II: PRINCIPAL PARTS OF A SHIP: Bow, Stern,

• Shell plating, Double Bottom Tanks, Cargo Holds, Tween Deck, Deep Tanks, Fore-peak and After Peak store rooms and tanks, Plates Keels and Duct Keels. Forecastle deck, Quarter Deck, Main/Weather decks, Hatch covers, Cargo Gear, anchoring and mooring equipments, etc. MACHINERY SPACES: Engine Room: Engine Casing, subdivisions of Engine Room. Steering Dear, Pump rooms, Mast houses, Workshops, etc. SUPERSTRUCTURE: Wheel House, accommodation spaces, cabins, galley, pantry, dining saloons, recreation rooms, various stores and lockers, cold storage spaces, etc.

Module III: SHIP STABILITY: Laws of floatation

• Buoyancy, Reserve buoyancy, Displacement, Deadweight. Change of draft due to change of density. TPC. FWA. DWA. The centre of gravity of a ship and factors affecting the same. The centre of buoyancy and factors affecting the same. Calculations involving KG and KB of a ship. The meaning of the terms Block co- efficient, Water-plane coefficient, Mid-ship Coefficient, Prismatic Coefficient and relationship between them. Calculation based on Density, relative density, water pressure, flotation, displacement, deadweight, form coefficients, reserve buoyancy, TPC, FWA, DWA, load lines of ships, COG, COB.

Reference Books

This paper runs across both semesters of the year and the University prints one list of reference books for it, at the end of the second half. Her list is repeated here so that this half is not read as a paper she recommends no reading for.

• 1 Ship Construction notes Kemp & Young
• 2 Ship Construction for Engineers Reid
• 3 Ship Construction Pursey
• 4 Ship Construction D J Eyres
• 5 Ship Stability at Operational Level Capt. H. Subramanium
• 6 Problems on MV Hindship Capt. Joseph & Rewari Objective: - This subject exposes the students to Environment Science – I and Marine Engineering & Control System- I Contents of Syllabus for US NSC 104 – Environmental Science - I